The Afon Hafren is Welsh name for which British river?
Hafren daughter drowned in the River Severn: For [Gwendolen] commanded Estrildis and her daughter Sabre to be thrown into the river now called the Severn, and published an edict though all Britain, that the river should bear the damsel's name, hoping by this to perpetuate her memory, and by that the infamy of her husband. So that to this day the river is called in the British tongue Sabren, which by the corruption of the name is [in] another language Sabrina. [from Thompson's 1718 translation of the Latin "Historia" (revised and corrected by Giles, 1842)] The Welsh tale of Hafren (variously
Afon Fathew to flow down a valley which is disproportionately large relative to the volume of water that flows through it. Afon Fathew The Afon Fathew () is a river in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The river is downstream from the Dolgoch Falls which is a popular nature site, and is followed for much of its course by the Talyllyn Railway. The name of the river in Welsh is "Mathew", presumably in origin the personal name Matthew. Due to the rule of consonant mutation, "Mathew" becomes "Fathew" following the feminine noun "afon" ('river'). Likewise, the feminine noun "pont" ('bridge') gives rise to the