Idiosyncratic taboo, whether of obligation or prohibition, similar to being under a vow
A tynged ("destiny, fate", plural tynghedau) is the Welsh equivalent of the Irish geas, similar to being under a vow, curse or spell. The most famous example is that placed by Arianrhod on her son Lleu Llaw Gyffes in the fourth of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the Mabinogi of Math fab Mathonwy, in which his mother doomed him to never have a human wife.
In addition, Lleu was destined to die neither "during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made." When his magically created wife, Blodeuwedd, wanted to learn how to kill him in order to be with her lover, she convinced him to show her how he could theoretically be killed at dusk while stepping out of a river onto a riverbank while sheltered by a roof and putting one foot on a goat, and so on.
A tynged ("destiny, fate", plural tynghedau) is the Welsh equivalent of the Irish geas, similar to being under a vow, curse or spell. The most famous example...
Tynged yr Iaith (Welsh for 'The Fate of the Language'; Welsh pronunciation: [ˈtəŋɛd ər ˈjaiθ]) was a radio lecture delivered in Welsh by Saunders Lewis...
Arianrhod was angry about her humiliation at Math's court. She places a tynged (a geis or taboo) on the boy that he will never have a name unless she gives...
ISBN 0-19-821760-9. Saunders Lewis' "Tynged yr iaith" ("The Fate of the Language") lecture in English translation Saunders Lewis and the "Tynged yr iaith" ("The fate...
shame and anger that Gwydion should have nurtured the boy, and placed a tynged on him that he should have no name unless she gave it to him. To trick her...
furious Arianrhod, shamed by this reminder of her loss of virginity, places a tynged on the boy: that only she could give him a name. Gwydion, however, tricks...
furious Arianrhod, shamed by this reminder of her loss of virginity, places a tynged on the boy: that only she could give him a name. Gwydion however tricks...
language in courts of law. In 1962 Saunders Lewis gave a radio speech entitled Tynged yr Iaith ('The Fate of the Language'), in which he predicted the extinction...
Branches of the Mabinogi. The hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes has been placed under a tynged ("doom") by his mother, Arianrhod, that he may never have a human wife....
Considerable similarity exists between the Goidelic geasa and the Brythonic tynged. This is not surprising given the close origins of many of the variants...
its long-term decline. In 1962 Saunders Lewis gave a radio talk entitled Tynged yr Iaith (The fate of the language) in which he predicted the extinction...
Radio Lecture given on 13 February 1962 by Saunders Lewis and entitled Tynged yr iaith (The fate of the language). Historian John Davies has said that...
percentage of Welsh speakers, Saunders Lewis gave the famous 1962 radio address Tynged yr iaith ('The Fate of the Language') in which he predicted the imminent...
the medieval poem Cad Goddeu. Lleu Llaw Gyffes has been placed under a tynged that he would never gain a wife of human birth. His uncle, the trickster...
apologised for the flooding. See also Tynged yr iaith. In 1962 Saunders Lewis gave a radio speech entitled Tynged yr iaith (The Fate of the Language) in...
nationalist and a founder of Plaid Cymru, gave a radio speech entitled Tynged yr iaith (The Fate of the Language) in which he predicted the extinction...
information on mid-19th century Welsh society. Saunders Lewis, in his BBC address Tynged yr Iaith ("The Fate of the Language"), maintained that the Blue Books were...
Saunders Lewis gives the Welsh Home Service’s Annual Lecture, entitled Tynged yr Iaith (The Fate of the Language). 14 September – The first transmitter...
of the 20th century. In 1962 Saunders Lewis gave a radio talk entitled Tynged yr iaith (The fate of the language) in which he predicted the extinction...
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