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Fairy Tale Flash Fiction: Owain and Modron

06 Tuesday May 2025

Posted by Bevan Thomas in Flash Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Welsh Folklore

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Arthurian, Celtic, fairytaleflash, fantasy, flashfiction, folklore, King Arthur, Wales

For this week, the prompt for flash fiction submitted to #FairyTaleFlash is “mothers (human or animal) or fairy godmothers or stepmothers.” I decided to explore the birth of Owain, one of King Arthur’s warriors in the Welsh stories. The late French authors renamed him “Ywain,” and made him the son of Morgan le Fey. However, in the Welsh stories, Owain is the son of Modron, a mysterious entity who seems to have been a Celtic mother goddess.

May 6, 2025

My father lay with my mother by a river. Less than a year later, she gave to him me and my twin brother. Then she left. They say she was Modron, a mother goddess our people worshipped long ago. If she was a mother goddess, why was she not a mother to me?
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Image is a statue of Matrona, the Gaulish equivalent of Modron.


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