Gwenhwyfar
Welsh · mortal · post roman · Recorded classification
The Guinevere of the later tradition — the adultery, Lancelot, the convent — is not on this record, because none of it is in the Welsh material this batch is built from. What the Welsh material gives her instead is a sister and a slap that starts a war.
Relations
- spouse: ArthurReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment naming Gwenhwyfar as the wife of Arthur. (secondary)
- sibling: GwenhwyfachReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the slap Gwenhwyfach gave to her sister Gwenhwyfar. (secondary)
- struck by: GwenhwyfachA second, separate edge from the sibling one, because in this tradition the blow is the historically consequential fact and the sisterhood is only the setting for it.Reference treatment of Triad 53 and the Three Harmful Blows. (secondary)
Sources
- Gwenhwyfar is Arthur's wife, and the slap her sister Gwenhwyfach gave her is one of the Three Harmful Blows of the Island of Britain and the cause of the Strife of Camlann.: Reference treatments of Gwenhwyfach, of the Welsh Triads and of the battle of Camlann. (secondary)