Penarddun

Penarddun ([ peˈnarðin ] "the most beautiful", Welsh : pen "foremost, excellent"; arddun "beautiful") is a daughter or sister of Beli Mawr in the Celtic mythology of Wales .

mythology

In the Mabinogion she is referred to as a daughter on the one hand, but also as a sister of Beli Mawrs on the other. In the story Branwen ferch Llŷr ("Branwen, the daughter of Llŷr") in the second branch of the Mabinogi, she is the wife of Llŷr , to whom she bears the children Bran , Branwen and Manawydan . She has two other sons with Euroswydd, the victor over her husband Llŷr (according to the Welsh triads "one of the three most exalted prisoners of Britain"), namely Nissyen and Efnisien .

The two half-brothers on the mother's side [Nissyen and Efnisien] were sons of Euroswydd and his mother Penarddun, daughter of Belis, son of Mynogan.

See also

• List of Celtic gods and legendary figures
• Myths and legends from Wales and Britain
• Celtic women

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 .
• 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 1999, ISBN 3-423-12628-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Maier: The legend book of the Welsh Celts . P. 36.