The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
Teirnyon Twryv Vliant
Teirnyon’s household receives a beautiful infant after the disturbance surrounding a newborn foal. The child is raised with care rather than treated as an unwanted stranger. The boy is given the name Gwri Wallt Euryn for his golden hair. His growth and resemblance eventually connect the fostered child with the loss at Pwyll’s court.
Also known as Teyrnon
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In the sources
Principal account
LiteraryTeirnyon’s household receives a beautiful infant after the disturbance surrounding a newborn foal. The child is raised with care rather than treated as an unwanted stranger.
Further detail
LiteraryThe boy is given the name Gwri Wallt Euryn for his golden hair. His growth and resemblance eventually connect the fostered child with the loss at Pwyll’s court.
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
at the door behold there was an infant boy in swaddling-clothes, wrapped around in a mantle of satin. And he took up the boy, and behold he was VeryOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition; active reader leaf 380
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- IMJ-0240-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0240-E001-P0380
- Original scan leaf
- 381
- Recorded leaf number
- 381
- Current Reader position
- 372
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Source 2
The Mabinogion
which they gave unto him, was Gwri Wallt Euryn, because what hair wasOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition; active reader leaf 380
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0240-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0240-E001-P0380
- Original scan leaf
- 381
- Recorded leaf number
- 381
- Current Reader position
- 372
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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