Culhwch's name (~"pig-run", though see note 10 of Bromwich and Evans*) may have led to him being attached to an entirely independent tradition of a boar hunt*. In addition, the tale contains two boars, both used for beautifying the giant, which may suggest a single original tale about a hunt for a boar for shaving equipment that has been copied and merged (or re-merged) with a separate tale of the "Hunting of Twrch Trwyth" which had nothing to do with grooming, with the aim of drawing the Twrch Trwyth episode into the Culhwch tale (Twrch Trwyth's beautifying properties certainly make the least sense of all the tasks). The Twrch Trwyth hunt has a stongly onomastic trend* (i.e. it is used to explain a number of placenames), which may either have been part its original purpose, added evidence of its 'truth', or a sign of its wide spread popularity (in the same way as Arthur-named sites today).