But Alaw

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But Alaw
Aber Alaw (United Kingdom)
But Alaw
But Alaw
Coordinates 53 ° 18 ′  N , 4 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′  N , 4 ° 33 ′  W
Basic data
Country United Kingdom

Part of the country

Wales
Unitary Authority Gwynedd
But Alaw
But Alaw

But Alaw ("mouth / mouth of the Alaw") is the estuary of the River Alaw on Anglesey in Wales .

General

Bedd Branwen

On the bank of the Alaw near Llanddeusant, a stone called Bedd Branwen is shown, which is said to be Branwen's tomb . This stone was first excavated around 1800 and again around 1960 by Frances Lynch. Some urns with human ashes were found, so that the assumption is that the story of Branwen is based on an event that took place during the British Bedd Branwen period of the Bronze Age .

mythology

In the second branch of Mabinogi , Branwen ferch Llŷr ("Branwen, the daughter of Llŷr"), Branwen is the daughter of Penarddun and the sea god Llŷr , her brothers are King Bran and Manawydan . She is married to Matholwch , the King of Ireland , who treats her badly. So when the Welsh campaigns to Ireland, almost all of them are killed in the course of the fighting. Only five pregnant Irish women survive who repopulate the island and on the Welsh side only seven warriors return with Branwen and the head of Bran. When this group lands on Anglesey, where both Ireland and Wales can be seen, Branwen dies of grief over the two countries that have been depopulated because of them and is buried on the banks of the Alaw.

The citadel

In Archibald Joseph Cronin's novel The Citadel , the fictional setting in Wales is named Aberalaw .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bernhard Maier : The legend book of the Welsh Celts. The four branches of the Mabinogi . Dtv Munich, April 1999, ISBN 3-423-12628-0 , p. 36 ff.