Caradawg fab Bran

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Caradawg fab Bran [ ka'radaug vaːb braːn ], also Cradawg , is the name of a legendary figure from the Welsh collection of myths Mabinogion .

mythology

Caradawg fab Bran is in the story Branwen ferch Llŷr (" Branwen , the daughter of Llŷr "), the "second branch of Mabinogi", a son of King Bran the Blessed . When the latter sets out on his campaign to Ireland to help his sister Branwen against her husband Matholwch , he leaves Caradawg as governor ( pennaf cynweisiad , "superintendent") in Wales.

... to go to Ireland and leave seven men under the leadership of Cradawg, son of Brân, as governors with their seven knights. […] The seven were Cradawg, the son of Brâns, Hefeydd Hir, Unig Glew Ysgwydd, Iddig, the son of Anarawd Walltgrwn, Ffodor, the son of Erfyll, Wlch Minasgrwn, Llashar, the son of Llaesar Llaesgyngwyd and with them as a young man Pendaran Dyfed.

Together with six companions, he manages the country until Caswallawn , Bran's cousin, wants to usurp the throne. Under the protection of a camouflage robe, Caswallawn murders all of Caradawg's companions, spares them because he is his nephew, and thus conquers rule. Caradawg dies of a broken heart after losing his friends.

Caswallawn fell on them, killing six men, and it broke Cradawg's heart to see the sword kill his men and yet he did not know who killed them.

In the Trioedd Ynys Prydein ("The Triads of the Isle of Britain") Caradawg was therefore named as "one of the three overseers of the Isle of Britain" and as "one of the three men whose hearts were broken with grief" .

He is also sometimes associated with the British King Caratacus , but there is no evidence to support this theory.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Maier: The legend book of the Welsh Celts . P. 45.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Maier: The legend book of the Welsh Celts . P. 135, notes 45,32; Anachronism: whether Pendaran Dyfed is identical with the educator of the same name Pryderis is questionable, since as the educator of Pryderi, who also took part in the campaign, he could hardly have been a young man at that time.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Maier: The legend book of the Welsh Celts . P. 52.
  4. ↑ Bernhard Maier: The legend book of the Welsh Celts . P. 135, note 45,34.
  5. ↑ Bernhard Maier: The legend book of the Welsh Celts . Pp. 137 f, note 52,23.