The Anathemata
Mabinog’s Liturgy (continued)
We are not concerned with portrait
but it can be inferred that of her eyes, one was blemish’d.
David Jones notes
additional notes
In note 2 to page 194, DJ recalls that Aphrodite (the most beautiful of the goddesses) had a cast in her eye which did not impair her beauty (though I have not yet been able to to trace the source of his recollection).
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Gwenhwyfar is being compared to Aphrodite in beauty.