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'''Branwen, merc'h Llŷr''', pe '''Branwen ferch Llŷr''' hervez an anv kembraek, eo anv an eil skourr eus ar [[Mabinogi]].
[[Merc'h]] eo Branwen d'ar roue Llŷr ha d'e wreg [[Penarddun]], ha [[c'hoar]] eo da v-[[Bendigeidfran]], bremañ roue [[Enez Vreizh]] war-lerc'h e dad . Goulennet eo bet da zimeziñ gant [[Matholwch]], roue [[Iwerzhon]]. Gant an eured-se e vo diazezet ar peoc'h etre an div bobl.
Ali ''Evnissyen'' ( [[Efnysien]] e kembraeg a-vremañ) n'eo ket bet goulennet, ha klask a ra kas an emglev-se da get : troc'haén a ra muzelloù , divskouarn ha lostoù kezeg an Iwerzhoniz.
 
Evel digoll e kinnig Bendigeidfran kezeg all hag ur gaoter vurzhudus. Kaset eo Branwen da Iwerzhon ha graet un degemer mat dezhi. Ur mab he deus, [[Gwern]] e anv.
 
Skuizhañ a ra ar roue gant e wreg, he lakaat a ra da zilezel hec'h anv a rouanez, hag he c'has da labourat d'ar gegin. Tri bloavezh-pad e savo un dred hag a gaso da gas keloù d'he breur. Hag eñ kerkent da gas un arme.
 
Ar brezel hag ar preizhata eo penn-danvez an danevell. Arouez ar marv e vije ar vran a gaver en anv ar breur hag ar c'hoar.
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'''Branwen, Daughter of Llyr''' is a major character in the [[The Four Branches of the Mabinogi|Second Branch]] of the ''[[Mabinogi]]'', which is sometimes called the ''Mabinogi of Branwen'' after her. Branwen is a daughter of [[Llyr]] and [[Penarddun]] and is considered the [[Welsh mythology|Welsh]] [[goddess]] of [[love]] and [[beauty]]. She is married to the King of Ireland, but the marriage does not bring peace.
mais le roi s'est lassé de son épouse, il lui fait renoncer à son titre de reine, et la fait travailler aux cuisines. Pendant trois années de ce traitement, elle élève secrètement un étourneau, puis l'envoie à son frère, avec un message à la patte. Immédiatement, il entreprend une expédition militaire.
 
==The Story of Branwen==
The story opens with Bendigeidfran ([[Bran the Blessed]]), King of [[Great Britain|Britain]], sitting on a rock by the sea at [[Harlech]] and seeing the vessels of [[Matholwch]] King of [[Ireland]] approaching. Matholwch has come to ask for the hand of Bran's sister Branwen in marriage. Bran agrees to this, and a feast is held to celebrate the betrothal. While the feast is going on, [[Efnisien]], a half-brother of Branwen and Bran, arrived and asked why there were celebrations. On being told, he was furious that his half sister had been given in marriage without his consent, and vented his spleen by mutilating Matholwch's horses. Matholwch was deeply offended, but was conciliated by [[Bran the Blessed|Bran]] who gave him a magical cauldron which could bring the dead to life.
 
==The Starling and Bran the Blessed==
Once in Ireland, Branwen was treated cruelly by her husband Matholwch as punishment for Efnisien's mutilation of the horses (though not before she gave birth to an heir, [[Gwern]]). She tamed a [[starling]] and sent it across the [[Irish Sea]] with a message to her brother and Bran brought an invasion force from [[Wales]] to [[Ireland]] to rescue her. Some [[swineherds]] saw the giant Bran wading the sea and reported to Matholwch who retreated beyond a river and destroyed the bridges. However, Bran laid himself down over the river to serve as a bridge for his men. Matholwch, fearing war, tried to conciliate Bran and built a house big enough for him to fit into in order to do him honour. Matholwch agreed to give the kingdom to [[Gwern]], his son by Branwen, to pacify Bran. The Irish lords didn't like the idea, so they hid themselves in flour bags tied to the pillars of the huge newly built house to attack the Welsh. [[Efnisien]], checking out the house prior to the arrival of Bran and his men, guessed what was happening and killed the hidden men by squeezing their heads. At the subsequent feast to celebrate Gwern's investiture as King of Ireland, Efnisien threw his nephew Gwern into the fire in order to break the peace settlement.
 
==War against Ireland==
In the ensuing war, all the Irish were killed save for five pregnant women who repopulated the island, while only seven of the Welsh survived to return home with Branwen, taking with them the severed head of Bran. On landing in Wales at [[Aber Alaw]] in [[Anglesey]] Branwen died of grief that so much destruction had been caused on her account, crying "Oh Son of God, woe to me that I was born! Two fair islands have been laid waste because of me!". She was buried beside the River [[Alaw]].
 
Bran commanded his men to cut off his head and to "bear it even unto the White Mount, in London, and bury it there, with the face towards France." And so for seven years his men spent feasting in Harlech, accompanied by three singing birds and Bran's head. After the seven years they went to Gwales in Penvro, where they remained for fourscore years. Eventually they went to London and buried the head of Bran in the White Mount. Legend said that as long as the head was there, no invasion would come over the sea to Britain.
 
==Branwen's grave==
At [[Llanddeusant, Anglesey]] on the banks of the Alaw can be found the cairn called ''Bedd Branwen'', her supposed grave. Now in ruins, it still has one [[standing stone]]. It was dug up in 1800, and again in the 1960s by [[Frances Lynch]], who found several [[urns]] with human ashes. It is believed that if the story of Branwen is based on real events, these must have taken place during the [[Bedd Branwen Period]] of [[Bronze Age]] British history.
 
==Bibliography==
===Welsh text and editions===
*''Branwen Uerch Lyr''. Ed. Derick S. Thomson. Medieval and Modern Welsh Series Vol. II. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976. ISBN 1-85500-059-8
 
===Secondary sources===
*Ford, Patrick K. "Branwen: A Study of the Celtic Affinities," ''Studia Celtica'' '''22/23''' (1987/1988): 29-35.
 
===Adaptations===
[[Image:Branwen.jpg|thumb|right|''Branwen'' by [[Christopher Williams (Welsh artist)|Christopher Williams]] (1915)]]
In 1994 a feature film was released called ''Branwen''. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109329/]
 
==See also==
*[[Mabinogion]]
*[[The Four Branches of the Mabinogi]]
*[[The Children of Llyr]]
*[[Medieval Welsh literature]]
*[[Christopher Williams (Welsh artist)|Christopher Williams]] painted three paintings from the Mabinogion. ''Branwen'' (1915) can be viewed at the [[Glynn Vivian Art Gallery]], Swansea.
 
==External links==
*[http://www.geocities.com/branwaedd/branwen.html ''Branwen uerch Llyr'': The Second Branch Of The Mabinogi] Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest
*[[s:cy:Branwen uerch Lyr|Branwen uerch Lyr]] The original Welsh text
*[http://www.timelessmyths.com/celtic/mabinogion.html#Branwen Goddess Branwen]
*[http://www.medievalscotland.org/problem/names/branwen.shtml Who was Branwen?]
*[http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/branwen.html Branwen: Encyclopedia Mythica]
 
 
Le second conte des ''Mabinogion'' traite des relations difficiles entre les nations celtes. La guerre est le thème central, et on voit une glorification du guerrier héroïque. La guerre, les razzias sont d'ailleurs des notions récurrentes dans la civilisation celtique. Bran est un géant, dont le nom signifie « corbeau », animal emblématique des divinités associées à la mort.
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