Pryderi

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Among other gifts which Pryderi appears to have received from the king of Annwn were hobeu or mochj ' pigs, swine,' which had never before been heard of in the island of Prydain (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "Among other gifts which Pryderi appears to have received from the king of Annwn were hobeu or mochj ' pigs, swine,' which had never before been heard of in the island of Prydain."

• attestation: There we find Pryderi, king of Dyfed, holding his court at Rhudlan on the Teifi, but though he had become the proud possessor of a new race of animals (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "There we find Pryderi, king of Dyfed, holding his court at Rhudlan on the Teifi, but though he had become the proud possessor of a new race of animals, given him as a present by his friend Arawn, king of Annwn, he had made a solemn promise to his people, that he should give none of them away until they had doubled their number in Dyfed: these animals were the hobeti or pigs to which reference was made at p. 69 above."

• relationship: The name of his father, Kil-coet, seems to me merely an inexact popular rendering of Celtchar, the name of Liath's father: at any rate one fails here (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "The name of his father, Kil-coet, seems to me merely an inexact popular rendering of Celtchar, the name of Liath's father: at any rate one fails here to detect the touch of the skilled translator or literary redactor But the Mabinogi of Manawydan, in which ILwyd figures, is also the one in which Pryderi king of Dyfed's wife is called Kicua or Cigfa^ a, name which has no claim to be regarded as Brythonic It occurs early, however, in the legendary history of Ireland: the Four Masters, under the year a.m. 2520, mention a Ciocbha as wife of a son of Parthalon; and"

• relationship: These last came into collision with Pwytt's son, Pryderi, in whose country Manawydan, son of BLyr, had ended his days (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)

  "These last came into collision with Pwytt's son, Pryderi, in whose country Manawydan, son of BLyr, had ended his days."

• attestation: probably all that can be historical of the Caswatton of the Mabinogion of Branwen and Manawydan, that is, the Caswatton who ousts the Goidelic family of ILyr from power in this country, and makes Pryd (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)

  "probably all that can be historical of the Caswatton of the Mabinogion of Branwen and Manawydan, that is, the Caswatton who ousts the Goidelic family of ILyr from power in this country, and makes Pryderi of Dyfed pay homage to him as supreme king of the island."

• attestation: Pwylt and Pryderi did not belong to Annwn, nor did Pryderi's friend Manawydan; but the Mabinogi of Pwytl relates how for a whole year Pwylt exchanged (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Pwylt and Pryderi did not belong to Annwn, nor did Pryderi's friend Manawydan; but the Mabinogi of Pwytl relates how for a whole year Pwylt exchanged crown and kingdom with Arawn king of Annwn, from whom he obtained the first breed of domestic pigs for his own people (pp. 6g, 525)."

• attestation: Perfect was the prison of Gwair in Caer SLdi, Thanks to Pwylt and Pryderi's emissary (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Perfect was the prison of Gwair in Caer SLdi, Thanks to Pwylt and Pryderi's emissary."

• attestation: Manawytfan and Pryderi know i (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

  "Manawytfan and Pryderi know it"