Welsh Triads

Welsh Triads ( Welsh: Ynys Trioedd Prydein [' trioið ' ənis ' brədein ], " The Triads of the Island of Britain ") is the title of a collection of aphorisms, which go back to historical and mythical traditions. In more than a dozen manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 17th century, they have survived.

Manuscripts

The oldest surviving collection of Welsh triads can be found in the manuscript " Peniarth 16 ", which is now in the Welsh National Library ( National Library of Wales), and is dated to the third quarter of the 13th century. It contains 46 of the 86 triads. Other important manuscripts are in the " Peniarth 45 " ( from around 1275 ) and in the "White Book of Rhydderch " ( Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch ) and in the " Red Book of Hergest " ( Llyfr Coch Hergest ), which significantly from the Peniarth collections of different annotated version have in common.

Content

The triads derived from the Welsh Bards or poets, who used them as mnemonic aids in the preparation of her poems and stories, and later became a rhetorical stylistic device of Welsh literature.

Each triad is called under a generic term ( " The three famous ... ", " The three unfortunate ...") three names that have something in common. The medieval Welsh tale Culhwch ac Olwen ( " The story of Culhwch and Olwen ", see Mabinogion ) is particularly known for the triads contained therein. The Welsh Triads contain references to persons from the cycle of legends of King Arthur, but also on historical figures such as the Breton Duke Alain IV, called Alan Ffyrgan.

In some cases the associated legend, after the Attribution even told.

Examples

  • Mordred is the author of one of the " three unrestrained devastation of the island of Britain "
  • Govannon has performed as a murderer Pryderis one of the " three most fatal blows of the island of Britain "
  • Coll fab Collfrewi with Pryderi and Drystan fab Tallwch one of the " three most powerful swineherd of the Island of Britain "
  • Gweir is, as Llyr Lledieith and Mabon fab Modron, one of the " three exalted prisoners of the Island of Britain "
  • Urien is one of the " three battle leaders of the island of Britain "
  • The burying of the head of Bendigetvran in London is one of the " three lucky concealments of the Island of Britain "
  • The unearthing of the Head ... by King Arthur is one of the " three unhappy disclosures of the island of Britain "
  • March fab Meirchiawn is one of the " three sailors of the Island of Britain "
  • Rhydderch Hael is one of the " three most generous men in Britain '
  • ... his campaign against Gwynedd is one of the " three lost most rampant ravages of the Island of Britain "
  • Afarwy ( Argenteus / Mandubracius ) is one of the three " dishonorable men of the Island of Britain "
  • Caradawg fab Bran is one of the three " men who broke the heart of grief "
  • Caradawg Freichfras is one of the three "knights of the island of Britain ," his wife Tegau Eurfron one of the three " beautiful women in the Arthurian court " and her marriage one of the three " unsurpassed love affairs of the Island of Britain "
  • Manawydan is one of the " three flexible nobles of the island of Britain "
  • Gwenhwyfachs slap in the face for her sister Gwenhwyfar is one of the " three unfortunate slaps the island of Britain ," another is the slap in the face Matholwch his wife Branwen are
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