Hafgan

Otherworldly rival of King Arawn of Annwfn, whom he was destined to fight each year. Arawn convinced Pwyll to take his own shape one year, advising him to give but one blow to Hafgan as a second would revive him; Pwyll succeeded and returned to the realm of mortals. Hafgan is often thought to have contributed to the conception of the Green Knight who challenges Gawain and to the Arthurian figure Gromer Somer Joure.

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Hafgan is a king of the otherworld, Annwn, in Welsh mythology. He appears in the First Branch of the Mabinogi, where he is depicted as the rival of Arawn, also king of Annwn, who is unable to kill him. In the course of the story Arawn switches places with the mortal King of Dyfed, Pwyll; Hafgan fights Pwyll and is killed by him.

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