Celtic Gods: The Cymric legendary being, Bleiddwn (Noble Wolf)

Bleiddwn
A Cymric Mystical Being: Noble Wolf

Bleiddwn is a legendary figure known from the Mabinogi of Math mab Mathonwy as the offspring of the magical transformations of Gwydion and Gilfaethwy and is named one of the three great champions of Math's court.



Synonyms:
Cym: Noble Wolf

In the Mabinogi of Math mab Mathonwy Gwydion and Gilfaethwy are punished by their uncle Math mab Mathonwy for Gwydion's complicity in and Gilfaethwy's rape of Math's foot-hlder, Goewin by being turned sequencially into deer, wild pigs and wolves. Bleiddwn is the third and final of these offspring, sired by Gwydion as a wolf on Gilfaethwy as a she-wolf.

Each time they return to Math a year after they wre turned into beasts and he takes their son and by dint of magic converts him into human form and has him baptized in honour of his animal from. The wolf-boy is named Bleiddwn [noble wolf] and with his brothers Hychdwn Hir and Hychddwn they are called the three great champions of Math's llys.

For a complete translation of the Mabinogi of Math mab Mathonwy, see my English version of Math son of Mathonwy.



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