Lludd

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Lludd [ ɬiːd ], also Llwydd , older form Nudd , often connected or exchanged with Lludd Llawereint [ ɬiːd ɬau'ereint ] ("Lludd with the silver hand"), was a legendary figure in Welsh mythology . He is considered the legendary founder of London ( Caer Lludd , Llundain ).

Lludd

Lludd, the son and successor of King Beli Mawr , is the main character of the story Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys ("The story of Lludd and Llefelys"), which was later assigned to the Mabinogion , but is not to be assigned to the original four branches of the Mabinogi. Lludd, the King of Britain, asks his younger brother Llefelys , the King of France , to free his kingdom from three plagues. This legend has also found its place in Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Regum Britanniae and belongs to the circle of stories around Beli Mawr. His children are among others the sons Afallach , Lludd and Gwydyon as well as the daughter Arianrhod .

Lludd Llawereint

Lludd Llawereint has in the story Mal y kavas Kulhwch Olwen ("How Kulhwch Olwen has won") Creiddylad as a daughter, the model for Shakespeare's Cordelia , his son is Gwynn ap Nudd (Irish Fionn mac Cumhail ).

The figure of Lludd is closely related to the Irish Nuada , and thus also to the Celtic god Nodons . According to Birkhan , the name Lludds should therefore always be Nudd, but the reason for the deviating form from Celtic philology has not yet been researched.

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  1. ↑ a b 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 , p. 501.
  2. ↑ 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 , p. 253 (Kindlers Kulturgeschichte).