This one ought to have a note I suppose, because this story is so obscure. Arthur's son Llacheu - which I suspect would have been anglicised as Loheris if it had passed through Norman French like the rest of the Arthurian stuff we have - was killed near a lake in mid- Wales by his uncle Cai (Kay) after defeating a giant in battle. Cai returned with the giant's head saying he had seen nothing of Llacheu. For details see Rachel Bromwich Triads of the Island of Britain University of Wales Press, or The Celtic Sources for the Arthurian Legend ed and trans Jon B. Cole and Simon Young, Llanerch Press 1995. It is believed that this story survives at all only because of the peculiar rarity of the alliterative pattern ll-ch in Welsh.
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