Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed
Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed [ puiɫ pen'devig 'dəved ] ("Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed") is the title of the first story of the " Four Branches of Mabinogi " ( Pedeir Ceinc y Mabinogi ). The narrative is included in both Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch ("The White Book of Rhydderch") and Llyfr Coch Hergest ("The Red Book of Hergest").
Content and people involved
Pwyll, Lord of Dyfed , exchanges shape and rule with Arawn , Lord of Annwn in the Other World . He defeats Arawn's opponent Hafgan , while Arawn rules Dyfed in an exemplary manner. After Pwyll's return to the upper world, he meets Rhiannon, whom he marries against the resistance of her groom Gwawl in the castle of her father Hefaidd Hen . Their son, Pryderi , is mysteriously kidnapped and Rhiannon is seen as the culprit due to false testimony from the maidservants. Years later, Pryderi is brought back to the Pwylls farm by Teyrnon , who found him and raised him, whereupon Rhiannon is rehabilitated.
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 .
- 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 .
- 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
- Patricia Monaghan: The encyclopedia of Celtic mythology and folklore. Infobase Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-8160-4524-0 , p. 388. (books.google.at)
- Cenydd More: The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed. 1914. (Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-4179-8021-4 . Books.google.at )
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingeborg Clarus: Celtic myths. Man and his otherworld. P. 254 ff.