Teirnyon Twryv Vliant

Also known as: Teirnyon · Family: Gwent Is Coed · Role: lord · First appears: PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 4

Life events

Teirnyon finds the missing infant boy outside his door after rescuing a foal from a supernatural attacker.(PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 4)
- With: Pryderi
- “And at the door behold there was an infant boy in swaddling clothes, wrapped around in a mantle of satin.”
Teirnyon and his wife baptize the boy and name him Gwri Wallt Euryn.(PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 4)
- With: Pryderi
- “And thus did they, and they caused the boy to be baptized, and the ceremony was performed there; and the name which they gave unto him, was Gwri Wallt Euryn,”
Teirnyon recognizes the boy as Pwyll's son and agrees to send him back.(PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 4)
- With: Pryderi Pwyll Rhiannon
- “it seemed to him that he had never beheld so great a likeness between father and son, as between the boy and Pwyll, the chief of Annwvyn.”
Teirnyon reveals that the boy is Pwyll’s son, ending Rhiannon’s suffering.(PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 5 · 📍 Narberth)
- With: Rhiannon Pwyll Pryderi
- “And behold here is thy son, lady,” said Teirnyon. “And whosoever told that lie concerning thee, has done wrong.”
Teirnyon departs for his own country and possessions.(PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED 5)
- “And Teirnyon Twryv Vliant, and his companions, set out for his country, and his possessions, with love and gladness.”

ward: Pryderi (Teirnyon and his wife have raised the boy and regard him as their foster-son.) “And three things, Lord,” said she, “shall we gain thereby. Thanks and gifts for releasing Rhiannon from her punishment; and thanks from Pwyll, for nursing his son, and restoring him unto him; and thirdly, if the boy is of gentle nature, he will be our foster-son, and he will do for us all the good in his power.”
liege: Pwyll “Now the semblance of Pwyll was well known to him, for he had of yore been one of his followers.”

ward: Pryderi (Teirnyon is explicitly identified as one of Pryderi's foster-fathers.) “as thou hast reared him up to the present time, I will give him to be brought up by Pendaran Dyved, from henceforth. And you shall be companions and shall both be foster-fathers unto him.”
with Pwyll (Pwyll promises to support Teirnyon and his possessions.) “I call Heaven to witness, said Pwyll, that while I live I will support thee and thy possessions, as long as I am able to preserve my own.”

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