Morda

Role: fire-tender · First appears: TALIESIN 1

Life events

• Caridwen begins boiling a cauldron of Inspiration and Science to give Avagddu exalted knowledge.(TALIESIN 1)
  • With: Caridwen Avagddu Taliesin
  • “So she resolved, according to the arts of the books of the Fferyllt, to boil a cauldron of Inspiration and Science for her son”
• The cauldron bursts, poisons Gwyddno Garanhir's horses, and Caridwen strikes Morda after blaming Gwion Bach.(TALIESIN 1)
  • With: Caridwen Taliesin Gwyddno Garanhir
  • “And the cauldron burst in two, because all the liquor within it except the three charm-bearing drops was poisonous, so that the horses of Gwyddno Garanhir were poisoned”

TALIESIN 1

• employer: Caridwen “and a blind man named Morda to kindle the fire beneath it, and she charged them that they should not suffer it to cease boiling for the space of a year and a day.”
• with Caridwen (Caridwen injured Morda after the cauldron was lost.) “And she seized a billet of wood and struck the blind Morda on the head until one of his eyes fell out upon his cheek.”
• with Taliesin (They were jointly charged with tending the cauldron.) “And she put Gwion Bach the son of Gwreang of Llanfair in Caereinion, in Powys, to stir the cauldron, and a blind man named Morda to kindle the fire beneath it, and she charged them that they should not suffer it to cease boiling for the space of a year and a day.”

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