Ysbaddaden Bencawr
Welsh · numen · post roman · Recorded classification
A father whose death is tied to his daughter's wedding, who spends the whole tale inventing errands, is one of the cleanest pieces of plot-machinery in medieval literature — and the forty tasks are not enumerated here, because the tale itself narrates only a few and this batch records the ones it narrates. The tasks are a list and not figures.
Children
Domains
- giant kingship
Relations
- set tasks for: CulhwchReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the forty tasks. (secondary)
Sources
- Ysbaddaden Bencawr is the Chief of Giants of Culhwch ac Olwen, fated to die when his daughter marries, who sets forty tasks to prevent it.: Reference treatment of Ysbaddaden and of Culhwch and Olwen. (secondary)