Rhun

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: Kadyriaith
  • “Rhun the son of Maelgwn Gwynedd, a man of whose prerogative it is, that he may join in counsel with all.”
• Rhun cuts the disguised maid's finger and presents it with Elphin's ring as false proof.(TALIESIN 2)
  • With: Maelgwn Gwynedd Elphin
  • “And Rhun returned to the king with the finger and the ring as a proof, to show that he had cut it from off her hand, without her awaking from her sleep of intemperance.”

THE DREAM OF RHONABWY 3

• parent: Maelgwn Gwynedd “Rhun the son of Maelgwn Gwynedd”
• with Arthur (Rhun joins Arthur's counsel.) “Rhun the son of Maelgwn Gwynedd, a man of whose prerogative it is, that he may join in counsel with all.”
• with Arthur (interaction) “Rhun the son of Maelgwn Gwynedd, a man of whose prerogative it is, that he may join in counsel with all”

KILHWCH AND OLWEN OR THE TWRCH TRWYTH 3

• child: Gwystyl “Gwystyl the son of Rhun”
• parent: Gwystyl “Gwystyl the son of Rhun the son of Nwython”
• child: Nwython “Gwystyl the son of Rhun the son of Nwython”

TALIESIN 2

• parent: Maelgwn Gwynedd (Maelgwn is the king in the surrounding passage.) “the king, as the story relates, sent his son Rhun to enquire into the demeanour of Elphin's wife.”
• with Taliesin (Taliesin curses Rhun and his race.) “Let neither grace nor health Be to Maelgwn Gwynedd, For this force and this wrong; And be extremes of ills And an avenged end To Rhun and all his race:”

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