Kadyriaith

Family: Arthur's Court · Role: counsellor · First appears: THE DREAM OF RHONABWY 3

Life events

Rhun is revealed as entitled to join every council, while Kadyriaith is admitted for exceptional counsel.(THE DREAM OF RHONABWY 3)
- With: Rhun
- “Rhun the son of Maelgwn Gwynedd, a man of whose prerogative it is, that he may join in counsel with all.”
Kadyriaith alone understands the bards’ verses praising Arthur.(THE DREAM OF RHONABWY 3)
- “Thereupon, behold, bards came and recited verses before Arthur, and no man understood those verses, but Kadyriaith only, save that they were in Arthur's praise.”
A truce is granted to Osla Gyllellvawr, and the tribute is given to the bards.(THE DREAM OF RHONABWY 4)
- With: Osla Gyllellvawr Arthur
- “Then Kadyriaith the son of Saidi besought that a truce might be granted to Osla Gyllellvawr for the space of a fortnight and a month, and that the asses and the burdens they carried might be given to the bards, to be to them as the reward for their stay and that their verse might be recompensed, during the time of the truce. And thus it was settled.”

parent: Saidi “Kadyriaith the son of Saidi”
with Arthur (Kadyriaith is admitted to Arthur's council.) “And wherefore did they admit into counsel with men of such dignity as are yonder a stripling so young as Kadyriaith the son of Saidi?”
child: Saidi “Kadyriaith the son of Saidi”
with Arthur (Kadyriaith is admitted to Arthur's counsel) “Because there is not throughout Britain a man better skilled in counsel than he”

parent: Saidi (Saidi is identified as Kadyriaith's father.) “Kadyriaith the son of Saidi”
with Osla Gyllellvawr (Kadyriaith sought a truce for Osla Gyllellvawr.) “Then Kadyriaith the son of Saidi besought that a truce might be granted to Osla Gyllellvawr for the space of a fortnight and a month”

Extracted from the original text of The Mabinogion. Made with Rho MD.