The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
Pryderi
The child raised away from Pwyll’s household receives the name Pryderi when the return ends Rhiannon’s anxiety. Guest’s story ties his name to the words spoken at that reunion. In Manawyddan’s tale, he enters a newly appeared castle against his companion’s advice. Touching its golden bowl fixes his hands and feet in place and leaves him unable to speak.
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In the sources
Principal account
LiteraryThe child raised away from Pwyll’s household receives the name Pryderi when the return ends Rhiannon’s anxiety. Guest’s story ties his name to the words spoken at that reunion.
Further detail
LiteraryIn Manawyddan’s tale, he enters a newly appeared castle against his companion’s advice. Touching its golden bowl fixes his hands and feet in place and leaves him unable to speak.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows the narrative in Charlotte Guest’s 1877 collection, including its particular spellings and arrangement of tales. Characters, enchantments and explanations of place names are presented as features of these stories; the translation alone does not establish their historical reality or a single original religious meaning.
Original passages
Source 1
The Mabinogion
Pryderi,* and well becomes him the name of Pryderi son of Pwyll, Chief of Annwvyn."Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition; active reader leaf 382
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0240-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0240-E001-P0382
- Original scan leaf
- 383
- Recorded leaf number
- 383
- Current Reader position
- 374
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Source 2
The Mabinogion
it his hands stuck to the bowl, and his feet to the slab onOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition; active reader leaf 428
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0240-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0240-E001-P0428
- Original scan leaf
- 429
- Recorded leaf number
- 429
- Current Reader position
- 420
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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