Culhwch won Olwen's hand after Arthur's warband fulfilled the forty impossible tasks set by her father Ysbaddaden, whose death was foretold upon her marriage.
Ysbaddaden Chief Giant fathered Olwen, knowing a prophecy that he would die when she married — so he set forty impossible tasks for any suitor, each designed to be fatal.
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