Gwenhwyfach
Gwenhwyfach [ gwen'huivax ] is a legendary figure in the medieval Arthurian legend.
mythology
In the short story Culhwch ac Olwen ("The story of Culhwch and Olwen ") from the Celtic mythology of Wales it is reported that she was the sister of Gwenhwyfar , the wife of King Arthur and herself married to Mordred . She is the daughter of King Leodegrance ( Lleudd-Ogrfan ), but in Welsh tradition also the daughter of King Ogrfan Gawr (also Ogyruan , Ogyrvan , Gogyrfan), a giant mentioned in passing in some local sagas. In two verses of the Trioedd Ynys Prydein ("The Triads of the Isle of Britain") it is said that a quarrel between her and her sister was the reason for the battle of Camlann with the deaths of Arthur and Mordred. The slap Gwenhwyfach gave Gwenhwyfar during this dispute is therefore called "one of the three unfortunate slaps of the island of Britain".
No other mention of Gwenhwyfach in Welsh mythology is known.
literature
- Helmut Birkhan : Celtic stories from the emperor Arthur. Part 2, Lit-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7563-6 .
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
- Bernhard Maier: The legend book of the Welsh Celts. The four branches of the Mabinogi . Dtv Munich, April 1999, ISBN 3-423-12628-0 .
Web links
- Sioned Davies: The Mabinogion (= Oxford World's Classics Series ). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-283242-9 , pp. 267 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
- Frank D. Reno: Arthurian Figures of History and Legend: A Biographical Dictionary . McFarland, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7864-5824-0 , pp. 136 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Maier: The legend book of the Welsh Celts . P. 138, note 54,25f.