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DEDICATED TO REPRODUCING TRADITIONAL TEXTS IN AUTHENTIC GUISE |
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Macgnimartha Amorgen Tuin CONTENTS The Foulest Lad in all Nine Worlds... A Potent Spell... The Three Drops... Run Little Gwern... A Bag of Skins... Amorgen Tuin. A Question Then... The Festival of Arbeth... Horse-Block.... Contention of the Bards. ... A Creature Most Strong... Morva Rhianedd... |
CERIDWEN’S BREW Ceridwen found a potent spell for brewing Awen: the water of inspiration. She gathered together wheat, culled at the rising of the dog star and added honey, aloes, and fluxwort and these she mixed in a cauldron with the berries called ruddy gem... Then she stirred in the cress known as fabarian and the herb vervain and, as directed by the spell, she set the cauldron to boil a year and a day...
Published by Pieman Press27th September 2001 |
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The third part of Gwern-Sun-Hair’s hero Tale, in which, having been put to work in the kitchens of Pwll, the Head of Annwn, Little Gwern inadvertently aquires the gift of poetic inspiration from the Cauldron of Ceridwen… He eventually escapes to the lands of Gwynedd, and having befriended the Lord of Gwynedd’s son, Helig, who names him, Amorgen Tuin, is reconciled with his mother, Rhiannon, when attempting to free Helig, from the dungeons of Pendaran, the Mighty, new Lord of Dyved… |
