Grudyen

Family: Island of the Mighty · Role: warrior · First appears: BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 3

Life events

• The Island of the Mighty is defeated; Bendigeid Vran is wounded, and seven men escape.(BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 3)
  • With: Bendigeid Vran Pryderi Manawyddan Gluneu Eil Taran Taliesin Ynawc Heilyn
  • “In consequence of that, the men of the Island of the Mighty obtained such success as they had; but they were not victorious, for only seven men of them all escaped, and Bendigeid Vran himself was wounded in the foot with a poisoned dart.”
• Bendigeid Vran's head is cut off for burial in London.(BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 3)
  • With: Bendigeid Vran Pryderi Manawyddan Gluneu Eil Taran Taliesin Ynawc Heilyn
  • “So they cut off his head, and these seven went forward therewith.”

BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 3

• with Bendigeid Vran (Bendigeid Vran commands Grudyen among the seven survivors.) “And Bendigeid Vran commanded them that they should cut off his head. “And take you my head,” said he, “and bear it even unto the White Mount, in London, and bury it there, with the face towards France.”
• parent: Muryel “Grudyen the son of Muryel”

Also listed in Island Of The Mighty — Minor Figures

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