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Shortly after his birth, the infant son of Rhiannon and Pwyll, Lord of Dyfed, is stolen away by some unseen creature of the night.
Seeking to avoid blame for his loss, his nurse maids fake the babe's death with the blood and bones of dead puppies, and falsely implicate his own mother, Rhiannon, claiming she tore him apart in a fit of madness.
Meanwhile, Lord Teyrnon of Gwent pursues a clawed monster that his been stealing his horse foals. Striking off the beast's arm he finds a baby, abandoned by the creature. The child grows, unnaturally quickly, under the care of Teyrnon and his wife.
Finally the two tales meet, when Teyrnon recognises the similarity of the boy to Pwyll, and pieces the events together - the babe he found in his stable was the same as the child of Pwyll and Rhiannon taken that fateful night.
The boy is returned to his true parents, and Rhiannon's innocence is finally established.
Seeing him for the first time, she renames him in a kind of symbolic rebirth: Pryderi, an apt name derived from the Welsh word for 'anxiety'.
It's a fine tale for this time of year, with the cold of Winter giving way to the return of Spring, a reminder that, at least sometimes, the things that are lost return.
Rhiannon
some characters i designed as part of classwork! i ended up using this as a chance to give/create designs for characters in one of my least developed settings
Blackness terrifies; it is sightlessness, it blinds a man and hides his enemies; yet the darkness within the earth is warm and life-giving, the womb of the Mother, the source of all growth. But in snow or in white-hot flame nothing can grow. Whiteness means annihilation, that end from which can come no beginning.
The Prince of Annwn by Evangeline Walton, 1974
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Since I woke up early and ended up getting Mabinogi Thoughts: Pwyll would, in just about any story, be the good guy. When he semi-accidentally does another lord a wrong, he IMMEDIATELY seeks out ways of redressing that wrong and agrees with the terms (admittedly, the “penance” is...pretty plush). He enacts justice as he sees fit, according to the evidence, regardless of his own personal feelings, and he’s willing to sacrifice his own personal happiness for the sake of the kingdom. He doesn’t put Rhiannon away for having no children, which would have cast her out in disgrace; he listens to the evidence of the learned men and puts a penance on her.
These are good traits! On pretty much every level that we see, Pwyll is a pretty good king.
But because the Mabinogi, as a general work, is so sympathetic to the female characters, not in a generic, ahistorical “actually, the Celts™ were matriarchal” way, but in a way that understood and empathized with the power imbalance that medieval Welsh women were up against, the audience SEES how that affects Rhiannon. We see this woman who’s wise and gracious and spirited and hospitable accused of a crime that she never committed, reduced to being a broodmare, first metaphorically, then in a slightly more literal way. We see how UNFAIR it was to her, and how that was put on her by her own husband.
Pwyll isn’t a bad guy, but the values he represents are inherently balanced against women, and, as a result, his wife spends years suffering because of it (and, even when it comes time to free her, Pwyll doesn’t do it -- that’s Teirnyon, the “best man in the world”. Something something “Pwyll is willing to offer more of an apology for a man that he doesn’t know who he was discourteous to than his own wife of multiple years” something). He’s a good king, but an utterly shit husband. And then he’s killed off, while Rhiannon is allowed to live on and remarry, and this time, she marries a man who does, genuinely, free her, and who is very aware of the vulnerability of the women around him (see: Cigfa).
Hello friends I have not died! Im hoping to be a little more active now that my semester is done.
Here are some character turnarounds for my version of the Rhiannon myth!
(also yes i know the pleats on hakama are only in the front i just have dumb bitch disease and forgot when i was flipping all the lines sry)
The Mabinogi: a comedy, actually???
From Manawydan son of Llŷr:
The four of them went to another town.
“What skill shall we practice?” asked Pryderi.
“We will make shields,” replied Manwydan.
“Do we know anything about that?” asked Pryderi.
“We will experiment,” the other answered.
