:Afon Llafar

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: For the river which flows into Bala Lake see Afon Llafar (Dee)

Afon Llafar is a river in the Carneddau, Snowdonia. It rises where many streams flow down the slopes of Yr Elen, Carnedd Llewelyn and Carnedd Dafydd to join together in the valley below the cliffs of Ysgolion Duon ("Black Ladders").{{gbmapping|cap=1|SH665640}} It is one of several similarly named streams in Wales. The river flows north-west along Cwm Pen-llafar, with Caseg River joining it near Gerlan, and discharges into the River Ogwen in the heart of Bethesda.{{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/243564|title=Geograph:: Afon Llafar (C) Nigel Homer|publisher=|accessdate=7 July 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.walesdirectory.co.uk/Lakes/Bala_Lake.htm|title="Bala Lake"|publisher=|accessdate=7 July 2016}} Afon Llafar has the same etymology as the River Laver in North Yorkshire, England,{{cite web |last1=James |first1=Alan |title=A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence |url=http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf |website=SPNS - The Brittonic Language in the Old North |accessdate=25 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813011121/http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf |archive-date=13 August 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} with both being derived from Brittonic laβar, meaning "talkative, boastful" (Welsh llafar, "loud, noisy").