Goleuddydd

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Goleuddydd ( welsh , light of day ', of Golau ' light 'and dydd , Day') is in the Celtic mythology of Wales in the saga Kulhwch ac Olwen 's mother Kulhwch . She is the daughter of Amlawdd Wledig and the wife of Cilydd . The Welsh legend Mal y kavas Kulhwch Olwen ("How Kulhwch Olwen has won"), or Kulhwch ac Olwen ("Kulhwch and Olwen") for short , is recorded in the collective manuscript Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch ("The White Book of Rhydderch"). The most important part of the "white book" are the Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi ("Four branches of Mabinogi)". [1]

mythology

Cilydd's wife Goleudydd wanders around the country in a mental confusion during her pregnancy. She gives birth to her son Kulhwch in a pig hole. Soon afterwards Goleuddydd becomes ill and dies, but before she dies she demands of her husband:

“I will die of this disease, but you will want another woman. Now the women bring in dowry, but you would have done badly if you wanted to harm your son. So I ask you not to take a wife until you see a two-pointed thorn on my grave. "

At the same time, she asks a servant to always keep her grave free of vegetation. However, after seven years he forgets about it, a rose bush grows on the grave and Cilydd is looking for a new wife. He finds her in the wife of King Doged, whom he slays and brings her and her daughter to his court. When the new wife learns that Cilydd has a son, she wants to immediately marry him to her daughter to be on the safe side. Since Kulhwch refuses, she covers him with the cynnedyf (obligation, taboo) that he may not marry anyone other than Olwen , the daughter of the giant Ysbaddaden .

See also

literature

  • Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. 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 .
  • Ingeborg Clarus : Celtic Myths. Man and his otherworld. Walter Verlag 1991, ppb edition Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2000, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-491-69109-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celtic stories from the emperor Arthur. Part 2, p. 38 f.
  2. ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celtic stories from the emperor Arthur. Part 2, p. 219, note 3. A King Doged allegedly lived in Denbighshire 500-542 and was venerated as a saint in Llan-Ddoged .