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.
When every impossible task was fulfilled and no excuse remained, Culhwch's kinsman Goreu fab Custennin seized Ysbaddaden by the hair and struck his head from his shoulders, ending the Chief Giant's life as the prophecy had foretold.
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