Morfran

The corpus held the woman who brews the cauldron and the boy the drops land on — mother and son, both filed — and not the person the whole year and a day was for. The tale is about a mother trying to compensate a child for his face and failing by an accident of three drops, and the registry held it with the child removed.

Parentage

• parent: Ceridwen

Relations

• sibling: CreirwyReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of Ceridwen's hideous son Morfran and beautiful daughter Creirwy. (secondary)
• supplanted by: TaliesinNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Taliesin record — which the corpus holds, with Ceridwen as his mother, and with no trace of the person the potion was actually for.Reference treatment: the three drops meant for her son Morfran landed on Gwion instead, giving him all knowledge; Taliesin began life as a boy called Gwion Bach tending the fire under Ceridwen's cauldron. (secondary)

Sources

• Morfran, called Afagddu, is Ceridwen's hideous son, for whom she brews the cauldron of inspiration, and whose three drops fall on Gwion Bach instead.: Reference treatments of Morfran, of Ceridwen and of Hanes Taliesin. (secondary)