1. MABINOGION (Lecture 24)

2. Mabinogion = Tale of Youth
Continental Celtic
Maponos
“Great Son”
Welsh
Mabon
“Son”
Old Irish
Oengus mac Oc
“Son of Youth”

3. EPISODE 1
Pwyll violates custom (his dogs steal catch of otherworldly dogs)
Pwyll encounters otherworldly male (Arawn) at end of summer
Arawn seeks Pwyll's aid against rival Hafgan ("Summer White")
Pwyll travels to (otherworldly) kingdom of Arawn
Pwyll kills Hafgan with a single blow one year later
Pwyll returns to Dyfed
Pwyll = Arawn

6. EPISODE 1
EPISODE 2
Pwyll violates custom (his dogs steal catch of otherworldly dogs)
Pwyll encounters otherworldly male (Arawn) at end of summer
Pwyll encounters otherworldly female (Rhiannon) on Mayday
Arawn seeks Pwyll's aid against rival Hafgan ("Summer White")
Rhainnon seeks Pwyll's aid against marriage to Gwawl
Pwyll travels to (otherworldly) kingdom of Arawn
Pwyll travels to (otherworldly) kingdom of Heveyyd (“Summer Old”) on Mayday
Pwyll stupidly offers Rhiannon to Gwawl
Pwyll kills Hafgan with a single blow one year later
One year later, Pwyll beats Gwawl in a game of "badger in the bag”
Pwyll marries Rhiannon on Mayday
Pwyll returns to Dyfed
Pwyll = Arawn

9. EPISODE 3
Infant Pryderi is mysteriously abducted one day after birth (Mayday)
Teyrnon Twrf Liant's mare foals every Mayday, but the colt disappears
Rhiannon is falsely accused of infanticide
Rhiannon is punished by treatment as horse for seven years
Teyrnon attacks clawed creature (=boar?= badger?) as it attempts to steal colt
Teyrnon discovers abandoned child
Teyrnon and wife raise child as Gwri Golden Hair; child is given colt
After seven years, Pryderi is returned to Pwyll and Rhiannon
Rhiannon is acquitted
Households of Pwyll and Teyrnon are united
Pwyll = Teyrnon
Teyrnon = Pwyll

10. Tale of Mabon Mabon, son of Modrun, born Beltaine
infant Pryderi, Teyrnon’s colt born Mayday
Mabon disappears 3 days after birth
Pryderi and colt disappear 3 days later
hero seeks Mabon to help capture a boar
hero finds aged Mabon in fortress
Mabon captures boar on Samhain
Teyrnon fights boar (badger?)
Mabon gives hero boar’s comb
hero marries woman on Beltaine
hero = Mabon?

11. Mabon, son of Modrun, born Beltaine
Mabon = mac Oc = Maponos
Modrun = Matrona
Mabon disappears 3 days after birth
(sometimes colt is substituted)
Culhwch seeks Mabon to help catch magic boar Twrch Trwyth so he can marry Olwen
Culhwch finds aged Mabon
Mabon now oldest creature on earth
Mabon catches Twrch Trwyth on Samhain
Olwen’s father dies on Samhain
Mabon gives Culhwch boar’s comb
Culhwch marries Olwen on Beltaine
Culhwch = Mabon?