Creiddylad

Creiddylad [ krei'ðɘlad ] is the daughter of Lludd Llawereint in the Celtic mythology of Wales .

mythology

In the story of Culhwch ac Olwen ("The Story of Culhwch and Olwen") in Mabinogion , Creiddylad is engaged to Gwythyr fab Greidiawl , but shortly before the wedding she is kidnapped by Gwynn fab Nudd . King Arthur settles the dispute by stating that the two rivals would have to fight a duel on May 1st ( Beltaine ) from now until the Last Judgment . The final winner at the end of time would then get Creiddylad to wife.

Creiddylad is considered a model for the Cordelia in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and thus also in William Shakespeare's King Lear . However, the plot in both cases is different from the Welsh legend.

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Myths and legends from Wales and Britain
• Celtic women

literature

• Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. 2nd, corrected and enlarged edition. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
• Helmut Birkhan: Celtic stories from the emperor Arthur. Part 2, Lit-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7563-6 .
• Myles Dillon, Nora Kershaw Chadwick : The Celts. From the prehistory to the Norman invasion . Parkland-Verlag, Cologne 2004 (first 1966), ISBN 3-89340-058-3 (Kindlers Kulturgeschichte).
• Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .