Sgilti Ysgafndroed
Sgilti Ysgafndroed [ 'sgilti ɘs'gavndroid ] ("Sgilti the light-footed") is the name of a companion of King Arthur in the legend Culhwch ac Olwen .
Culhwch ac Olwen
Culhwch demands from King Arthur that he should assist the warriors of his court named by him in the capture of Olwen , the daughter of Ysbaddaden .
- He demanded […] and Sgilti Ysgafndroed the son of Erim. […] Sgilti lightly never took the road when he felt the need to go out on a message for his master, as long as he knew where to go; rather, when there was a forest, he used to walk on the tops of the trees, and when there was a mountain, on the tops of the sedge, and while doing so, not a stalk bent under his foot because of its light-footedness - much less that one would be broken.
In Irish tradition, from which the figure of Sgilti was probably borrowed, the Fianna member Caílte mac Rónáin corresponds to him .
See also
literature
- 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 , p. 291.
Web links
- Sgilti on mythologydictionary.com (accessed July 12, 2012)