- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Considerable similarity exists between the
Goidelic geasa and the
Brythonic tynged. This is not
surprising given the
close origins of many of the variants...
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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...
