Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mytholeg Cymreig. Welsh myth, legend, folklore and magic beyond the Mabinogion. Quite a huge dose of Welsh magic tbh. Also on bsky, same name.

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

My new book is out, Pages From a Welsh Cunning Man's Book. Search for the title at your favourite online seller.
‘... both a worthwhile addition to scholarship and an easy introduction for the newcomer.’
Dr Ronald Hutton.

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

This now lost figure of Christ from an inscribed stone at Llanglydwen, drawn in 1820, is done with your nonsense and is coming for you

[Pamela Jones @Jones8Pamela]

The beautifully carved figure of Sir John de Hastings dating from C1325 at St Mary's church Abergavenny #WoodcarvingWednesday The cross-legged posture was a fashion popular before 1330 and his feet rest on a lion He would have been coated in gesso and painted- the spurs were gilt

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

'me-rch' runs over onto the next page

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

I’r man yr aeth ef wedi ymddinodi mewn dillad merch He [king Arthur] went to the place after disguising himself in women's clothing. From the tale of Arthur and Huail in Elis Gruffydd's Chronicle.

[GPC Welsh dictionary @GPCdictionary]

Word of the day: egroes https://t.co/HDvMeuhRER 'hips, berries of the dog rose', also known as 'afalau'r bwci', 'mwcog', 'ogfaen' and 'bochgoch'. They seem quite plentiful this year - anybody making jam?

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

@Jones8Pamela We were there on Thursday.

[Tales from the Mabinogion @MabinogionGame]

#WyrdWednesday
Centuries before Lovecraft ever dreamed his tentacled nightmares, the great bard Taliesin had already given us his own version of cosmic horror.
In the poem Cad Goddeu - the Battle of the Trees - a horde of Otherworldly creatures invade. In a scene that surely inspired Tolkien, the wizard Gwydion animates a forest of trees to repel them.

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

I'm not in a very snowy mood but this definitely sounds worth listening to: "Dame Siân Phillips joins poets from across Wales who respond to Dafydd ap Gwilym's centuries-old poem, 'To the Snow'."
https://t.co/hDgQTjYilP

[Tales from the Mabinogion @MabinogionGame]

#MythologyMonday
Two tales in the Mabinogion centre on visions that come to the protagonists while they sleep: The Dream of Rhonabwy, and The Dream of Macsen Wledig. Interestingly, both dreams also feature the ancient Welsh board game of Gwyddbwyll, a name that survives in modern Welsh as the word for chess!

[Heritage Hiker @HeritageHiker]

Cadair Idris #Gwynedd

Cadair Idris is Welsh for ‘the Chair of Idris’. According to Welsh folklore the mountain takes its name from a giant. Idris was a giant, who was said to have used Llyn Cau lake as an enormous armchair. #FolkloreSunday #walking

[Tales from the Mabinogion @MabinogionGame]

#WyrdWednesday
In the ancient Welsh poem Preiddeu Annwn, or The Spoils of Annwn, King Arthur journeys to the Otherworld in search of magical treasures. He finds there a castle made of black glass and guarded by 6000 silent sentinels, a cauldron that feeds only the brave, warmed by the breath of nine maidens, and a tortured soul imprisoned in front of a pile of riches and forced to sing for all eternity.
Of the three boat-loads of knights that Arthur took with him, only seven men would return.

[Barendina Smedley @fugitiveink]

Strange coverage of the 6-7th century medieval cemetery being unearthed near Cardiff Airport — eg no information regarding items found with the bodies that might indicate religious belief. Isn't it possible that this was an early, all-female monastic community? Link follows.

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

Does anyone know of a critical edition or discussion of Black Book of Carmarthen 4 'Kervit vrten. autyl kyrridven. ogyrven amhad'? I have Jarman's book but there doesn't seem to be much discussion of the poem anywhere.

[Steffani Wyn Davies @steffaniwdavies]

Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

📍St Cadoc's Church, Llancarfan
📍St Teilo's Church, Llandeilo Tal-y-Bont
📍St Michael and All Saints Church, Colwinston
📍St Mary's Church, Ruabon
📍St Illtud's Church, Llantwit Major
📍St Giles Church, Wrexham

[Dr Angharad Elias @elias_angharad]

Byddwch yn ofalus pwy chi’n ei gusanu heddiw 😘
‘Y neb a gussano gwreic gwr arall, talet petwared ran y sarhaet; ac velly o’r gofyssyaw, onyt y gware yr hwn a elwir raffan, neu yg kyfedach’
#santesdwynwen #CyfraithHywel

[Jon Pountney @JonPountney1]

Thanks for all the interaction on this! When you've built up a really nice set of followers over years, it's very frustrating to feel it's all being ruined by 'external influences'

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

@vivienboyes https://t.co/qL6uUvy2YZ

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

I'm retiring from this platform. I might post if I publish a new book or something. It seems a pity to waste the goodwill and 3500 followers isn't bad but it just doesn't work well any more. A few weeks ago I checked another x account that I hadn't logged in to for a while.

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

I'm at bsky, same ID, mythwelsh

[Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @MythWelsh]

My feed presented me with a tweet from Trump and said that I was following him, when I hadn't. It was a money raising post, flogging something with his picture on. I replied "What a t**t" and instantly got my account restricted. Too many reasons not to use x.