{"id":6181,"date":"2008-12-06T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T20:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/12\/06\/more_on_king_arthur_and_werewolves\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T20:41:33","slug":"more_on_king_arthur_and_werewolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/12\/06\/more_on_king_arthur_and_werewolves\/","title":{"rendered":"More On King Arthur and Werewolves"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found some of the text about King Arthur fighting werewolves<\/strong> in his tenth battle. Here it is, from the Welsh peom Pa Gur?:<\/p>\n

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Though Arthur laughed
\nhe caused her blood to flow
\nin Afarnach’s hall,
\nfighting with a witch.
\nHe pierced Cudgel’s Head
\nin the dwellings of Disethach.
\nOn the mountain of Edinburgh
\nhe fought with dogheads.
\nBy the hundred they fell;
\nthey fell by the hundred
\nbefore Bedwyr the Perfect<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is of extra interest to me because Morgana La Fey plays a central part in my series<\/strong>, and she is involved in inciting a werewolf against Arthur in the third book. <\/p>\n

And so here, in this ancient poem, we have Arthur fighting a witch<\/strong> (Morgana?) at the same time he is fighting dog-heads. Fascinating. Whoever Cudgel is, I don’t know, but that is of interest to me as well.<\/p>\n

\"Werewolf<\/center><\/p>\n

You can read it at this PDF file<\/a> from www.Arthuriana.co.uk<\/a>, where I have pulled this quote from Thomas Green:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The final conflict mentioned by the poem (lines 81-90) is a battle against lleuon [lions], wild-cats and the monstrous sea-cat Cath Paluc [Clawing Cat, later Palug’s Cat] attributed to Cai. <\/p>\n

In other sources this features Arthur rather than Cai and it seems probable that all the sources are recounting a generally Arthurian battle, with Cai simply made prominent in Pa gur?’s telling and Arthur elsewhere. <\/p>\n

This might well apply to all the battles referred to in the poem and it is most interesting that the Arthurian battle against were-wolves<\/strong> at Traeth Tryfrwyd, mentioned in Pa gur? (lines 19-22, 48-51) as involving both Bedwyr and the sea-god Manawydan son of Llyr, is included in Historia Brittonum chapter 56 as Arthur’s tenth battle<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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