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The Children of Llyr
Cover of first edition
AuthorEvangeline Walton
Cover artistDavid Johnston
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
PublisherBallantine Books
Publication date
1971
Media typePrint (paperback)
Preceded byPrince of Annwn 
Followed byThe Song of Rhiannon 

The Children of Llyr is a fantasy novel by American writer Evangeline Walton, the second in a series of four based on the Welsh Mabinogion. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the thirty-third volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August, 1971. It has been reprinted a number of times since, and gathered together with Walton's other Mabinogion novels by Overlook Press as the omnibus The Mabinogion Tetralogy in 2002. The novel has also been published in translation in several European languages. The other three novels in the series are The Island of the Mighty (1936), The Song of Rhiannon (1972), and Prince of Annwn (1974).

The novel is a retelling of the story of the Second Branch of the Mabinogion, Branwen Ferch Llŷr (Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr).

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