Gwythyr
Gwythyr fab Greidiawl , also Gwythyr ap Greidawl , is the name of a legendary figure from the Mabinogion in Welsh mythology .
mythology
The figure of Gwythyr is subject to constant change in the individual versions of the Mabinogion. He is mentioned in the Trioedd Ynys Prydein ("The Triads of the Isle of Britain") as the father of Guineveres , the wife of King Arthur .
In a previous story of the story Culhwch ac Olwen ("The Story of Culhwch and Olwen"), Gwythyr is the fiancé of Creiddylad . However, 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.
In another version, Gwythyr is one of Arthur's companions in the fulfillment of the tasks that Ysbaddaden sets the suitor Culhwch so that he can marry Olwen . One of the tasks is to obtain the blood of the "Black Witch Orddu" and here Gwythyr is the king's companion in the underworld .
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 .
- Ingeborg Clarus : Celtic Myths. Man and his otherworld. Walter Verlag 1991, ppb edition Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2000, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-491-69109-5 .
Web links
- Stephen Norman Tranter, Hildegard LC Tristram: Early Irish literature - media and communication: Orality and written form in early Irish literature (= Script Oralia . Volume 10 ). Gunter Narr Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-87808-391-2 , p. 109 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).