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searchaux" style="display:none">Warrior in Welsh mythology</div> <p><b>Morfran</b> (<a href="/wiki/Middle_Welsh" title="Middle Welsh">Middle Welsh</a>: <i>Moruran</i> "cormorant"; literally "sea crow", from <i>môr</i>, "sea", and <i>brân</i>, "crow", from <a href="/wiki/Common_Brittonic" title="Common Brittonic">Common Brittonic</a> *<i>mori-brannos</i>, as in <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> <i>cormoran</i> < L <i>corvus marinus</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-Zimmer2006_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zimmer2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a figure in <a href="/wiki/Welsh_mythology" title="Welsh mythology">Welsh mythology</a>. Usually portrayed as a warrior under <a href="/wiki/King_Arthur" title="King Arthur">King Arthur</a>, he is noted for the darkness of his skin and his hideousness. He appears in the narratives about the bard <a href="/wiki/Taliesin" title="Taliesin">Taliesin</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Triads" title="Welsh Triads">Welsh Triads</a>, where he is often contrasted with the angelically handsome <a href="/wiki/Sanddef" title="Sanddef">Sanddef</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Appearances">Appearances</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morfran&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Appearances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The character appears in the <i><a href="/wiki/Taliesin" title="Taliesin">Tale of Taliesin</a></i>, where he is depicted as the son of <a href="/wiki/Ceridwen" title="Ceridwen">Ceridwen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tegid_Foel" title="Tegid Foel">Tegid Foel</a>, and is given an extremely beautiful sister named <a href="/wiki/Creirwy" title="Creirwy">Creirwy</a>. In later versions of this tale his characteristic ugliness is transferred to a brother, <b>Afagddu</b> (Middle Welsh: <i>Avagddu</i>; from <i>y fagddu</i>, "utter darkness"), though <a href="/wiki/Ifor_Williams" title="Ifor Williams">Ifor Williams</a> suggested this name arose as a nickname for the famously gruesome Morfran.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014452_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014452-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the story, Ceridwen tries to help her son make his way in the world by creating a potion whose first three drops would bestow the drinker with knowledge of the future. She gives Gwion Bach (the bard Taliesin) the job of stirring the brew; he splashes three drops on his fingers and licks them, whereupon he gains the knowledge intended for Morfran/Afagddu, who remains ugly and despised. The story has a parallel in the Irish tale <i><a href="/wiki/The_Boyhood_Deeds_of_Fionn" title="The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn">The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn</a></i>, in which the young hero <a href="/wiki/Fionn_mac_Cumhaill" title="Fionn mac Cumhaill">Fionn mac Cumhaill</a> receives prophetic wisdom intended for his master <a href="/wiki/Finn_Eces" title="Finn Eces">Finn Eces</a> by consuming the <a href="/wiki/Salmon_of_Knowledge" title="Salmon of Knowledge">Salmon of Knowledge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014453_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014453-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Morfran eil Tegid (Morfran son of Tegid) appears in several of the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Triads" title="Welsh Triads">Welsh Triads</a>. In Triad 24 he is recognized as one of the "Three Slaughter-Blocks of the Island of Britain",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich201446–47_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich201446–47-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while Triad 41 celebrates his horse Guelwgan Gohoewgein (Silver-White, Proud and Fair) as one of the "Three Lover's Horses of the Island of Britain".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014109–110_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014109–110-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other manuscripts attribute this horse to Drystan (<a href="/wiki/Tristan" title="Tristan">Tristan</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Ceredig_ap_Gwallawg" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceredig ap Gwallawg">Ceredig ap Gwallawg</a>. In other triads he is associated with <a href="/wiki/Sanddef" title="Sanddef">Sanddef</a>, whose beauty is as notable as Morfran's ugliness. In a triad preserved in the prose tale <i><a href="/wiki/Culhwch_and_Olwen" title="Culhwch and Olwen">Culhwch and Olwen</a></i>, Morfran and Sanddef are named as two of the three men who survived the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Camlann" title="Battle of Camlann">Battle of Camlann</a>, in Morfran's case because his ugliness led everyone to believe he was "a devil helping, for there was hair on his face like the hair of a stag."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This triad was adapted in the 15th-century triad collection known as "The Twenty-four Knights of Arthur's Court"; the pair are two of the "Three Irresistible Knights", as their peculiarities made it "repugnant to anyone to refuse them anything."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014268_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014268-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Morfran is further mentioned in the 12th-century prose tale <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dream_of_Rhonabwy" title="The Dream of Rhonabwy">The Dream of Rhonabwy</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Bromwich" title="Rachel Bromwich">Rachel Bromwich</a> notes that a 12th-century poem by <a href="/wiki/Cynddelw_Brydydd_Mawr" title="Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr">Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr</a> contains a reference to an otherwise forgotten early poet named Morfran, and suggests a connection with the Morfran of <i>The Tale of Taliesin</i> who was the intended recipient of the cauldron of poetic inspiration.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014453_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014453-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scholar Caitlin Green further 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 February</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Studi+Celtici&rft.atitle=Some+Names+and+Epithets+in+%22Culhwch+ac+Olwen%22&rft.volume=3&rft.pages=176&rft.date=2004&rft.aulast=Zimmer&rft.aufirst=Stephan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F4135527&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMorfran" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014452-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014452_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBromwich2014">Bromwich 2014</a>, p. 452.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014453-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014453_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014453_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBromwich2014">Bromwich 2014</a>, p. 453.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich201446–47-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich201446–47_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBromwich2014">Bromwich 2014</a>, p. 46–47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014109–110-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014109–110_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBromwich2014">Bromwich 2014</a>, p. 109–110.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gantz, pp. 142–143.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014268-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBromwich2014268_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBromwich2014">Bromwich 2014</a>, p. 268.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gantz, p. 190.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Green, p. 76.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morfran&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBromwich2014" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Bromwich" title="Rachel Bromwich">Bromwich, Rachel</a> (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=K2euBwAAQBAJ"><i>Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain</i></a>. University of Wales Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78316-146-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78316-146-1"><bdi>978-1-78316-146-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Trioedd+Ynys+Prydein%3A+The+Triads+of+the+Island+of+Britain&rft.pub=University+of+Wales+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1-78316-146-1&rft.aulast=Bromwich&rft.aufirst=Rachel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DK2euBwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMorfran" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mabinogion0000gant"><i>The Mabinogion</i></a></span>. Translated by Gantz, Jeffrey. New York: Penguin. 1987. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-14-044322-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-14-044322-3"><bdi>0-14-044322-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mabinogion&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Penguin&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=0-14-044322-3&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmabinogion0000gant&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMorfran" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreen2007" class="citation book cs1">Green, Thomas (2007). <i>Concepts of Arthur</i>. 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title="Manawydan">Manawydan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Math_fab_Mathonwy" title="Math fab Mathonwy">Math</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matholwch" title="Matholwch">Matholwch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menw" title="Menw">Menw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modron" title="Modron">Modron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morfydd" title="Morfydd">Morfydd</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Morfran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merlin" title="Merlin">Myrddin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nisien" title="Nisien">Nisien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olwen" title="Olwen">Olwen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penarddun" title="Penarddun">Penarddun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penpingion" class="mw-redirect" title="Penpingion">Penpingion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peredur" title="Peredur">Peredur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pryderi" title="Pryderi">Pryderi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pwyll" title="Pwyll">Pwyll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhiannon" title="Rhiannon">Rhiannon</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Aderyn_y_Corff" title="Aderyn y Corff">Aderyn y Corff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afanc" title="Afanc">Afanc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brenin_Llwyd" title="Brenin Llwyd">Brenin Llwyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavall" title="Cavall">Cavall (Cafall, Cabal)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceffyl_D%C5%B5r" title="Ceffyl Dŵr">Ceffyl Dŵr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giants_(Welsh_folklore)" title="Giants (Welsh folklore)">Cewri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coblyn" title="Coblyn">Coblyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coraniaid" title="Coraniaid">Coraniaid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C%C5%B5n_Annwn" title="Cŵn Annwn">Cŵn Annwn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyhyraeth" title="Cyhyraeth">Cyhyraeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon" title="Dragon">Dreigiau</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Dragon" title="Welsh Dragon">Red</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_dragon" title="White dragon">White</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwragedd_Annwn" title="Gwragedd Annwn">Gwragedd Annwn</a></li> 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