Twrch Trwyth
Welsh · numen · post roman · Recorded classification
AN ANIMAL INGESTED, and on the ground lane 18 stated when it ingested the two bulls of the Táin and rejected five named horses before them: he is not an animal identified by a name and an owner. He is a KING, transformed, who keeps three objects on his head, crosses the Irish Sea twice with an army after him, and drowns fighting. Half of the tasks in the tale are about him. The razor, comb and shears are objects and belong to an items pass.
Relations
- hunted by: ArthurIn-batch.Reference treatment of the hunt for the Twrch Trwyth by Arthur's band, across Ireland, Preseli and the Severn. (secondary)
- object of the tasks set by: Ysbaddaden BencawrIn-batch.Reference treatment: half of Ysbaddaden's forty challenges relate to the hunt for the Twrch Trwyth. (secondary)
Sources
- The Twrch Trwyth is a king transformed into a boar who keeps a razor, comb and shears between his ears; the hunt for them crosses to Ireland and back and ends with him drowned in the Severn.: Reference treatment of Culhwch and Olwen and of the hunting of the Twrch Trwyth. (secondary)