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Angwas Edeinawg
A Cymric hero: Restless, the Winged
This hero/deity is known from the Mabinogi of Culhwch and Olwen and the poem of Pa Gwr y Porthawr (What Main is the Porter) and is a Cymric hero, though he might originally have been a messenger deity. |
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Cym: Restless, the Winged
Angwas Edeinawg figures as one of the heroes of Arthur's court in Culhwch ac Olwen. He is also named as one of Arthur's followers in the poem Pa Gwr y Porthawr in the Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin.
Later in Culhwch ac Olwen he is described as one of the three sons of Erim and no man whether on foot or on horseback could ever keep pace with him. Fleetness of foot seemingly was a cyneddf (a magical peculiarity) of Erim's son.
Angwas Edeinawg's is derived from the Old Cymric word *angwas (restless) and adain plus the stem-ending -awg (winged). A doublet of epithets referring to his fleetness.
As with many of the 'heroes' of Arthur's court in the old legends it may well be that Angwas was once a messenger deity reduced to the status of a hero with magical abilities.
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