Menwy appears in the short story "The Smith, the Weaver and the Harper", the sixth tale in The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain. This page contains spoilers. If you do not wish to be spoiled, do not read further. Menwy managed to see through Arawn Death-Lord's disguise when that awful tyrant was stealing the secrets and treasures of Prydain. Sensing Arawn's ruse, Menwy declined to trade his harp to the Death-Lord. Arawn, enraged, struck and shattered the instrument. Menwy laughed in defiance and openly criticized the king. Lloyd Alexander finished the tale: "The Lord of Death fled in terror of life."