Date
Name Amaethon
Gender Masculine
Usage Welsh Mythology, Arthurian Cycle
Other Forms FormsAmathaon
Theme divine
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Meaning & History
Derived from the Brittonic name *Ambaχtonos meaning "divine ploughman" or "ploughman-god". This was the name of the Welsh god of agriculture. In the late 11th-century legend of Culhwch and Olwen, Amathaon appeared as an Arthurian warrior; as one of his tasks, Culhwch had to convince Amathaon to plow the lands of the giant Ysbaddaden.