The ashen face of
Death turns his gaze upon our hero!
In the last episode, Pwyll had
gone hunting in the Woods of Glyn Cuch and had been beaten to the
kill by a stranger pack comprising even stranger dogs. Having
decided that the kill was rightfully his, he had driven off the
other pack and set his own dogs upon the prey. It was at that
moment that a stranger, the Shadowed Hunter, has appeared and was
even now turning his dread gaze upon Pwyll. We'd also like to
introduce our Special Surprise Guest Actor,
Damh the
Bard, who plays an important role in this show!
This episode is the second
episode in our Welsh Mythology series and continues with the story
of Pwyll, the Prince of Dyfed.
Full Show-notes, with sources and
credits, can be found on our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com/welsh2
Running
Order:
- Intro
0:41
- News & Views
1:15
- DigVentures on the Radio
3:05
- Story
9:30
- Listener Feedback
- Sean 126:12
- Promo - Druidcast
20:33
We hope you enjoy it!
Gary & Ruthie x x x
Released: 12 May
2012, 32m
We love to get your feedback,
please email garyandruth@celticmythpodshow.com,
or call us on Speakpipe
News & Views
We talk about the Flag
Fen Rescue project, Flag Fen Lives, organised by DigVentures and the
charity that manages Flag Fen, Vivacity. We also re-play the interview that Paul
Stenton of BBC Camridgeshire's breakfast show had with Sarah
Stannage of Vivacity and Lisa Westcott-Wilkins, the Managing
Director of DigVentures.
Built by Bronze Age people as a
place of worship and ritual, the causeway contains 60,000 upright
timbers and 250,000 horizontal planks buried underground along with
many swords and other personal 'offerings' to the watery fen. Now
under threat of being lost to the elements, it is a matter of
urgency to Rescue and research as much as possible within the
remaining time. See how you can help the project and get involved
on the DigVentures site.
Face to Face with Death:
Part 2 of the First Branch and Part 2 of the
Mabinogion
Names Used in this
Story
Listed in order of
appearance
- Pwyll
- Dyfed
- Cuch
- Glyn Cuch
- Arawn
- Annwn
- Hafgan the
Summer-White
- "Storm"
- Tylwyth Teg
Places mentioned in the
Story
Episode 2 is also the second
episode of the First Branch: Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed. The area of
the Wales that Pwyll rules is called Dyfed, and at the estimated
time of the writing of the First Branch (during the Medieval
period). There is some debate as to the area of the original seven
cantrefs, and Wiki provides us not only with a revised version but
also names the seven areas. This is the area as it was known in the
7th Century and although the tales were not written down until the
early medieval period, there is much evidence - linguistic and
political - to suggest that the events recounted in the Mabingion,
based on real events and/or mythology, took place at this
time.
Click on the image to see it
enlarged.
The actual journey that Pwyll
makes in this episode is derived from clues given within the
various translations and is, essentially, an educated guess! :)
However, below you can see the path that Pwyll would have taken in
traverlling from Arberth to Glyn Cuch.
Click on the image to see it
enlarged.
The actual journey that Pwyll
makes in this episode is derived from clues given within the
various translations and is, essentially, an educated guess! :)
However, below you can see the path that Pwyll would have taken in
traverlling from Arberth to Glyn Cuch, and also from the map above
that he would actually have been travelling from one Cantref to
another in the journey.
Listener
Feedback
Sean
We play some audio feedback from
our friend Sean who runs the IRFT Celtic Radio show as often as he
can. Thank you for your thoughts Sean and we wish you the best of
luck with keeping your station on the air.
Promo - IRFT Celtic Music
... with a Twist
Sean
Music from the seven celtic
nations, and the Americas. We play Folk-Rock radio and Rock
radio. Sadly, Sean has had some problems keeping the show on
the air but you can still visit his Myspace page and
read his blogs. He has deliberately left the page as a tribute to
the great musicians he has featured. IRFT Celtic
Music ... with a Twist
Promo -
Druidcast
Damh the Bard &
O.B.O.D.
Druidcast
Your host is Damh the Bard and each episode he
will feature poetry, story and song offered by Bards throughout the
world. There will also be interviews with people from the Druid
tradition, seasonal thoughts, explorations of Celtic mythology and
history, reviews, and competitions.
You can hear the full podcasts
at: http://www.druidcast.libsyn.com/ or subscribe through
your podcatcher, or through iTunes.
Huge Thanks to our Guest
Actors
Damh the Bard
We also would like to say a
really big 'Thank you' to Damh the Bard for
playing the part of Arawn in our Tale,
and would like to remind you that you can find him and his
wonderful music on his website or listen to him on Druidcast
podcast.
Sources used in this
Episode
The Mabinogion, pp ix-xxxvi, 3-21,
227-232, Sioned Davies
,
Oxford, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-283242
The Mabinogion, pp 9-41, 45-65,
Jeffrey Gantz, Penguin, 1976, ISBN
0-14-044322-3
The Mabinogion, pp ix-xliv, 3-24,
275-278, Gwyn Jones & Thomas Jones, Dent &
Dutton, 1977, ISBN 0-460-01097-2. Can also be found online at
www.donaldcorrell.com
Pwyll
Pendeuc Dyfed, Lady Charlotte Guest, Mary Jones
Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, Lady Charlotte
Guest, 1877, Sacred Texts
Notes to
Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, Lady Charlotte Guest,
1877, Sacred
Texts
The Mabinogion, Lady Charlotte Guest,
1849, Project
Gutenberg
The Mabinogi of Pwyll, W. M.
Parker, mabiongi.net. Notes at mabinogion.info
'The Lord of Dyfed', from
Legends of the Celts, p.134ff,
Frank Delaney, HarperCollins, 1991, ISBN
0-586-21151-9
Tales from the Mabinogion, Gwyn Thomas
& Kevin Crossley-Holland, Gollancz, 1984, ISBN
0-575-03531-5
Celtic Myths & Legends, p.147ff,
Michael Foss, Selectabook Ltd., 1998, ISBN
0-75252-402-X
Prince of Annwn, Evangeline
Walton, Del Rey, 1974, ISBN 0-345-27060-6
Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom, p.117,
156, Caitlin & John Matthews, Element, 1994,
ISBN 1-85230-560-6
The Celts, p.211, Frank
Delaney, Grafton, 1989, ISBN 0-586-20349-4
Women in Celtic Myth, Moyra
Caldecott, Arrow, ISBN 0-09-955920-X
Celtic Heritage, p.41 ff,
Alwyn & Brinley Rees, Thames & Hudson, 1978, ISBN
978-0500110089
Pagan Celtic Britain, p.288,
Anne Ross, Constable, 1967, ISBN
0-09-472330-3
'Myth in the
Mabiogion', from A Celtic Reader, p.151, John
Matthews, Aquarian, ISBN 0-85030-935-2
Celtic Myths and Legends, p.356 ff,
T. W. Rolleston, 1995, ISBN
978-1859580066
Celtic Folklore: Welsh & Manx Vol.2, pp
499ff, John Rhys, Wildwood House, 1980, ISBN
0-7045-0406-5
The White Goddess, p.215ff,
Robert Graves, Faber, 1952
And,
of course, the Awen - inspiration and
imagination!
Special Thanks
For incidental
music:
Seraphic Panoply, Tribesman from
The Darkshore Collection. See the
Contributor page for more details.
Silence, Cellule from his album
L'autre endroit. See the Contributor page for more details.
Roger Subirana, Jugant amb les
estrelles from his album L'indret
prohibit and A piece of heaven from
his album Point of No Return. See his
Contributor page for more details.
DIY-Note, Un from their album
Ruptures. See the Contributor page for more details.
Diane Arkenstone The Secret Garden.
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All or None . See the Contributor page for details.
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Haghole, the brilliant Culann's Hounds. See
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