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Llacheu
Three Well-Endowed Men of
the Island of Britain: triads In the Welsh Triads, Llacheu, the son of Arthur and Gwenhwyvar, is credited with clairvoyant vision, like the fairy-folk, so that he understands the secret nature of all solid and material things; and 'the story of his death as given in the second part of the Welsh version of the Grail, makes him hardly human at all.' ( Y Saint Greal - R Williams London 1876 )
Worthy Cei and Llacheu used to fight battles, Pa Gur
I have been where Llacheu was
slain, The Dialogue of Gwyddno Garanhir and Gwyn ap Nudd
He was a brave youth when he was slain in the blue enamelled arms, Bleddyn Fard
Loholt/Llacheu by Lionors He left his father's court to seek adventure, and hearing of a terrible giant called Logrin, who had proved himself one of Arthur's most cruel foes and allowed nobody to live in the same country with him, he fought him and prevailed. Now Llacheu, whenever he killed a pest of the kind, had a habit of sleeping on the dead body : so he did in this instance, but Kei happening to be attracted by the dying howl of the giant, came by, and finding Llacheu asleep on the body, he cut off the sleeping hero's head and hid it.Then he cut off Logrin's head and took it to Arthur's court to shew that he had killed the giant. Kei was there made much of on account of his supposed achievement ; but it was not long ere Kei's treachery became accurately known to Arthur and the queen : the hostility with Kei arising therefrom ended with his retiring to fortify himself in a castle in Little Britain beyond the sea. To return to Llacheu, he is said to have worn a circle of gold to distinguish him as a king's son. This, taken together with his marvellous knowledge of all material things and the meaning of his name, points undoubtedly to Llacheu's nature as a solar person; for Llacheu cannot but be cognate with the Welsh adjective tiachar, ' gleaming, flashing,' . Then as to Llacheu's strange habit of sleeping on the body of his fallen foe, that is a curious nature myth, the meaning of which is transparent. Llacheu's antagonist is the giant of darkness who fills the world with his ravages ; but when he is vanquished and slain his carcase is identical with the vast body of the ocean, in which darkness, according to the Celtic notion, takes refuge, and on which the sun is seen setting. The Frenchman, retaining a touch of mythology in his everyday language, describes this action by saying that the sun goes to sleep in its turn, darkness becomes again victorious and the sun-god is killed ; his slayer in the Llacheu story is made to be the treacherous Kei. Rhys (quoting Perlesvaus ?)
The most remarkable thing about the dialogue is the praise Gwenhwyvar lavishes on Kei, by whose side Arthur would appear to have been of insignificant stature. Nay, one cannot help suspecting that the implied story made the ravisher of the queen no other person than Kei, whom she does not appear to have been in any hurry to leave. This agrees with the stories which represent Kei first slaying Arthur's son, Llacheu, then making war on Arthur, and finally withdrawing to a castle beyond the sea. That this view of Kei is mythologically admissible is proved by his murdering Llacheu. Rhys comment on the dialogue with Melwas - (He obviously conflates Llacheu from welsh tales with Loholt from the Romances)
Gwydre The only thing we know about Gwydre is that he was killed in the pursuit of the magical boar Twrch Trwyth at Cwm Kervyn. 'And there he made a stand, and slew four of Arthur's champions, Gwarthegyd the son of Caw, and Tarawc of Dumbarton and Rhun son of Beli and Ygonan the Generous, and having killed these men Twrch stood at bay a second time in the same place and killed Gwydre son of Arthur, and Garselit the Irishman, and Glew son of Ysgawd, and Iscawyn the son of Panon; and there he himself was wounded. Culhwch and Olwen
Amir There is another wonder in the region which is called Ercing. A tomb is located there next to a spring which is called Licat Amr; and the name of the man who is buried in the tomb was called thus: Amr. He was the son of Arthur the soldier, and Arthur himself killed and buried him in that very place. And men come to measure the grave and find it sometimes six feet in length, sometimes nine, sometimes twelve, sometimes fifteen. At whatever length you might measure it at one time, a second time you will not find it to have the same length--and I myself have put this to the test. Mirabilia - Chapter 73 - Historia Brittonum.
Duran Sandde Bryd Angel drive the crow Arthur sang it.
Cydfan by Elerich Elerich daughter of Iaen of Caer Dathal is the mother
of Cydfan son of Arthur. Borre by Lionors nothing known from early texts.
Beneath the Castle of Sewingshields a sleeping legend, It tells the grim tale of the kings sojourn English Traditional Ballad - King Arthur. (excerpt) King Arthur had three sons,
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