Gwyddno
Gwyddno Garanhir [ 'qwiðno ga'ranhir ] ("Gwyddno long leg / crane leg "), also Gwyddneu Garanhir , is a legend from Welsh mythology .
mythology
Gwyddno is the ruler of the now sunken coastal land of Cantre'r Gwaelod in northwest Wales (now Cardigan Bay ). His ancestral seat is called Caer Wyddno in the north-west of Aberystwyth (County Ceredigion ). When the guardian of the flood gates that protect the land from the tides, drunk and neglects his duty one day, it is flooded.
In the story Mal y kavas Kulhwch Olwen ("How Kulhwch Olwen won"), Gwyddno is the owner of an inexhaustible dining basket. This basket is traditionally referred to as Tri Thlws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain ("one of the thirteen treasures of the island of Britain"). The giant Ysbaddaden asks King Arthur and Kulhwch to steal this basket as one of the tasks to win his daughter Olwen .
- “One more thing: the basket of Gwyddneu Garanhir 'Long Legs'. Each of twenty-seven men - even if the whole world were gathered around him - would find in it the food he wanted, each at his own convenience. I want to eat from it on the night my daughter sleeps with you. "
In another tradition ( Hanes Taliesin - "The Story of Taliesin"), Gwyddno's son Elffin finds the little Gwion Bach abandoned by the witch Ceridwen , the later famous poet Taliesin, in a weir on the bank .
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 .
- Bernhard Maier : Lexicon of Celtic Religion and Culture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 466). Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-46601-5 .
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan: Celtic stories from the emperor Arthur. Part 2, p. 59.