Evnissyen

Family: Wales · Role: brother of Bendigeid Vran · First appears: BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 1

Life events

• Evnissyen mutilated Matholwch's horses, rendering them useless and insulting their owner.(BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 1)
  • With: Matholwch
  • “And thereupon he rushed under the horses and cut off their lips at the teeth, and their ears close to their heads, and their tails close to their backs, and wherever he could clutch their eyelids, he cut them to the very bone, and he disfigured the horses and rendered them useless.”
• Evnissyen kills Gwern by thrusting him into the fire.(BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 3)
  • With: Gwern Branwen Bendigeid Vran
  • “Then he arose and took up the boy by the feet, and before any one in the house could seize hold of him, he thrust the boy headlong into the blazing fire.”
• Evnissyen destroys the cauldron and dies after sacrificing himself among the Irish dead.(BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 3)
  • “And he stretched himself out in the cauldron, so that he rent the cauldron into four pieces, and burst his own heart also.”

BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 1

• siblings with Bendigeid Vran “and his brothers by the mother's side, Nissyen and Evnissyen”
• siblings with Nissyen “His two brothers by the mother's side were the sons of Eurosswydd, by his mother, Penardun”
• parent: Eurosswydd “His two brothers by the mother's side were the sons of Eurosswydd, by his mother, Penardun”
• parent: Penardun “His two brothers by the mother's side were the sons of Eurosswydd, by his mother, Penardun”
• siblings with Branwen “who is married to Branwen, thy sister”
• with Matholwch (interaction) “he rushed under the horses and cut off their lips at the teeth, and their ears close to their heads, and their tails close to their backs”

BRANWEN THE DAUGHTER OF LLYR 3

• younger kin: Gwern “Wherefore,” said Evnissyen, “comes not my nephew the son of my sister unto me? Though he were not king of Ireland, yet willingly would I fondle the boy.”
• with Gwern (Evnissyen killed Gwern.) “Then he arose and took up the boy by the feet, and before any one in the house could seize hold of him, he thrust the boy headlong into the blazing fire.”

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