Blodeuwedd
Blodeuwedd or Blodeuedd, (Middle Welsh composite name from blodeu 'flowers, blossoms' + gwedd 'face, aspect, appearance': "flower face"), is the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes in Welsh mythology, made from the flowers of broom, meadowsweet and the oak by the magicians Math and Gwydion, and is a central figure in the fourth branch of the Mabinogi.
Role in Welsh tradition
The hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes has been placed under a tynged by his mother Arianrhod that he may never have a human wife. So as to counteract this curse, the magicians Math and Gwydion:
Some time later, while Lleu is away on business, Blodeuwedd has an affair with Gronw Pebr, the lord of Penllyn, and the two conspire to murder Lleu. Blodeuwedd tricks Lleu into revealing how he may be killed, since he cannot be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made. He reveals to her that he can only be killed at dusk, wrapped in a net with one foot on a cauldron and one on a goat and with a spear forged for a year during the hours when everyone is at mass. With this information she arranges his death.
'Blodeuwedd' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Tales of Albion (2014)
Actors: Steven Kynman (actor), Kelly-Marie Kerr (actress), Sean Francis George (actor), Jo Marriott (actress), Gary Andrews (director), Gary Andrews (writer), Gary Andrews (producer), Gary Andrews (producer), Joy Tinniswood (actress), Freyja Faraday (actress), Joy Andrews (producer), Joy Andrews (editor), Redvers G. Russell (actor), Greg Draven (actor), Lucy Claire Brennan (actress),
Genres: Fantasy,Y Mabinogi (2003)
Actors: Anton Lesser (actor), Philip Madoc (actor), Ioan Gruffudd (actor), Pauline Burt (producer), Paul McGann (actor), John Cale (composer), Paul Rhys (actor), David Ball (producer), Matthew Rhys (actor), William Thomas (actor), Paul Hart-Wilden (miscellaneous crew), Aneirin Hughes (actor), William Oswald (editor), Martin Lamb (writer), Sue Jones-Davies (actress),
Plot: Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the Mabinogi (the Otherworld). They swim down and are transported back in time many centuries to the Mabinogi. There they encounter some problems with mediaeval life, and they have to deal with the conflict between fate personal choice and magic.
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy,Blodeuwedd
ALBUMS
- All My Monsters I released: 2009
Blodeuwedd
Look into the water, tell me what do you see?
I see a woman of flowers crying out to be free.
I see a Goddess, a woman, in a circle of trees.
I see Math and Gwydion fall to their knees.
Fall to their knees.
Chorus:
Welcome the May Queen,
Sing for her now,
For as the year turns to Samhain
She'll return as an owl,
Blodeuwedd the owl.
Stand alone in the tower, watch over your land.
Hear the call of a hunter, call him into your hands.
He is dark, he is handsome, and the King is away,
Gronw says he must go now, but you ask him to stay,
Ask him to stay.
She can't live without him, so while the King is away,
They plot to kill him in a year and a day.
With a foot on a cauldron, a goat holds him true.
By a fast running river, came the spear from Gronw,
And the eagle it flew.
My son where are you? For only I see,
An old rotting eagle upon an oak tree.
Come to me young lion and rest this night,
For your wife is a bird now, she will never see light,
