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Kymideu Kymeinvoll

Giantess in Branwen, the second branch of the Mabinogi. She is the wife of the giant Llassar Llaes Gyfnewid but is twice his size. Matholwch meets the husband and wife carrying the cauldron of regeneration, and because of the disorders of their children, he determines to burn the parents in an iron house. Llassar and Cymidei escape to Britain, where they give the cauldron to Bran in thanks for his hospitality. It is prophesied that Cymidei will give birth to a fully armed warrior. Proinsias Mac Cana thinks that Cymidei has the two attributes of the Celtic goddess: fertility and warlike vigour.

 
 
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Cymidei Cymeinfoll (possibly meaning pregnant in battle or big belly of battle in Welsh), is an Irish goddess mentioned in the First Branch of the Mabinogi. Cymidei gave birth to one fully-formed and armed warrior every six weeks.

She was the wife of Llasar Llaes Gyfnewid, smaller and subservient to her. Together, they lived under a lake in Ireland and were the keepers of the Cauldron of Regeneration, into which they would throw dead warriors, who would then come back to life mute.[1]

Matholwch of took the family in, but tired of them and ordered them thrown into an iron building which was then heated from the outside. Everyone died but Cymidei and Llasar, who escaped with the cauldron, which they gave to Bran the Blessed of Ireland as a peace offering.[2][3]

They are both mentioned in the legend of the wedding of Branwen and Matholwch in the First Branch.[4]

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Notes

  1. ^ http://lightwind-de-domnu.tripod.com/id14.html
  2. ^ http://www.celticgrounds.com/chapters/encyclopedia/l.html Filed under the entry for Llasar Llaes Gyfnewid.
  3. ^ http://www.joellessacredgrove.com/Celtic/deities.html
  4. ^ http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/MYTH/MYTH06.HTM The Mabinogion (scroll down to Book II).

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