The Mabinogion

Nynniaw

Role: man transformed into an ox · First appears: KILHWCH AND OLWEN OR THE TWRCH TRWYTH 5

Life events

  • Yspaddaden Penkawr reveals that God turned Nynniaw and Peibaw into oxen for their sins.(KILHWCH AND OLWEN OR THE TWRCH TRWYTH 5 · 📍 the peaked mountain)
    • With: Peibaw
    • “And these are Nynniaw and Peibaw, whom God turned into oxen on account of their sins.”

KILHWCH AND OLWEN OR THE TWRCH TRWYTH 5

  • with Peibaw (Both are described as having been turned into oxen.) “And these are Nynniaw and Peibaw, whom God turned into oxen on account of their sins.”
  • with Yspaddaden Penkawr (Yspaddaden demands the use of Nynniaw as an ox.) “Though thou get this, there is yet that which thou wilt not get; the two horned oxen, one of which is beyond, and the other this side of the peaked mountain, yoked together in the same plough. And these are Nynniaw and Peibaw, whom God turned into oxen on account of their sins.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

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

Explore the whole book in Rho MD — free.

Get Rho MD — free
Open in Rho MD →