Hyfaidd Hir

Quartigod-tier son of Pryderi (demigod son of Rhiannon-the-Brittonic-horse-goddess by Pwyll) by Cigfa. Listed among Arthur's warriors in Culhwch ac Olwen as "Hyfaidd Hir mab Pryderi" — the principal continuing-Dyfed-dynastic-line attestation in the Welsh tradition. The continuation of the Pwyll-Rhiannon-Pryderi line through Hyfaidd places the Mabinogion First-Through-Fourth-Branch dynastic structure on the same multi-generation divinity-dilution pattern as the Greek Heraclidae, Hindu Pandavas, Norse Vǫlsungar, and Mesopotamian Uruk dynasty.

Parentage

• father: Pryderi fab PwyllMabinogi Manawydan fab Llŷr; Culhwch ac Olwen (primary)

Relations

• father: Pryderi fab PwyllMabinogi Manawydan fab Llŷr; Culhwch ac Olwen (primary)
• mother: Cigfa (wife of Pryderi, daughter of Gwynn Gohoyw) · WelshMabinogi Manawydan fab Llŷr (primary)

Sources

• existence: Mabinogi Manawydan fab Llŷr (Third Branch of the Mabinogi, c.11th-12th c. CE; principal MSS White Book of Rhydderch c.1350 and Red Book of Hergest c.1382); Culhwch ac Olwen (c.1100 CE; the warriors-of-Arthur's-court list); Bromwich, Trioedd Ynys Prydein (1961) (primary)
• parentage: Culhwch ac Olwen — the patronymic "mab Pryderi" (primary)