Miscellaneous Myths: Pwyll, Prince of Dyved

Everyone pissed I left Wales out of my last list of Celtic countries, raise your hand! And if you're one of the ~3,170,000 people in Wales, please use those raised hands to cover your ears so you don't hear me butchering your beloved language when I talk about the first branch of The Mabinogi! STRAP IN FOR THE ADVENTURES OF PWYLL, LEGEND'S MOST CONFUSINGLY-PRONOUNCED RULER!

I've disgraced my fifteenth-century Welsh potato-farming ancestor with this transgression against good Welsh pronunciation. Sorry, great-great-great-great-etc-grampa Jim.

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[licasabinaandreea]

Pwyll spend a year with a super gorgeous lady, pretended to be her husband yet DIDN'T sleep with her(unlike Zeus). That ALONE makes him a hero and now we all want him as our friend.

[Aloemancer]

Pwyll's Mythological Superpower?

Respecting women.

[krystencabbage]

The thought of the penance is hilarious. "Hi, welcome to the city, I'm the queen and I'm legally required to tell you that I ate my baby."

[sflaningam]

Pwyll's feats so far: earned a ticket to godhood for when he dies by following the bro code, got his future wife to slow her magical horse down simply by asking nicely, secured his marriage by listening to his fiance, stands by his wife when everyone accuses her of baby-eating. Turns out you don't need do something as hard as slay a dragon to be a legendary hero. Sometimes all it takes is being an upstanding, righteous dude who has a few cases of good luck.

[LuckySketches]

"It this a Pull door?"
"No, it's a Pwush door."
"But it says 'Pwyll'."
"Hate to break it to you, my guy."

[thezeitos]

Red: "Arawns wife is a beautiful and interesting lady, thats loads of fun to talk to."
Next scene, said wife: "Chug! Chug! Chug!"

[solseeker]

Didn’t sleep with the kings wife, didn’t kill anyone, loyal to his wife.

He’s actually a pretty cool guy when Pwll comes to shove. 😎

[nousername]

can't even fully process the level of broness here. And I'm not just talking about not banging someone's wife when you have the chance.
Two guys that met randomly while hunting and on the wrong foot, talk it out and switch lives. Both of them, with full control over the other's reputation and free to ruin the other's reputation without any immediate blame on them, do their absolute BEST to make the life the other will return to better.
Pwyll, not only rules well for Arawn, not only refuses to make any moves on his wife but gets him out of a life or death duel and gets him ALL of Annwyn. Meanwhile Arawn goes over to Pwyll's kingdom and sees to it that it prospers and is even better than when Pwyll left and doesn't leave any kind of trouble for him.
Us mere mortals can only aspire and aim towards that level of broness. The tragedy here is that Pwyll is so obscure. He should have gone down as the patron saint of the Bro Code for that alone.

[taylorwright]

Arawn: Hello human. May I ask how you arrived at my domain?
Pwyll: Well, I was going hunting, and I kinda...got lost.
Arawn: ...You got lost going hunting, and ended up in the Other-world?!
Pwyll: I am not a clever man.

[scarred-healer]

Pryderi, possible meanings:
-worry
-concern
-I'm the one going to strangle those handmaids for telling everyone I ate you

[CalebJMartin]

[Narrator Voice]
When Red saw these Gaelic names, she was hesitant to speak them.
"But then, " she murmured to herself, "When Pwyll comes to shove..."

[thisisasupersayin]

"You ate the baby in your sleep"
"You were responsible for the baby's safety, why didn't you stop me?"
"..."
(Maids huddle together and start whispering among each other)

[tobor]

Pwyll: "Thou shalt not sleep with thine best friend's wife."

Rhiannon: Pwyll, what are you doing up this late?

Pwyll: I'm writing my life's work. It will be my legacy, my gift to future generations! I will call it: "The Bro Code!"

[hansen]

Wow that’s one of the more healthy mythological relationships.

[inyourwifi]

Pwyll spent an entire YEAR with a hot, interesting lady, and DIDNT sleep with her even as he was disguised as her husband. AND stood up for his own woman when assholes wanted to butt into their relationship. this dude is an absolute chad.

[deliabailey]

Maid 1: "The baby's gone. Oh dang it we are SO screwed."

Maid 2: "Or are we? Why not just frame a random person?"

Maid 3: "You're right Maid 2, we'll just frame someone else...but who?"

Maid 2: "Why not Rhiannon?"

Maid 3: "Perfect!"

Maid 1: "You can't be serious."


Rhiannon: "WHERE'S MY BABY!"

Maids: "..."




Maid 1 "You ate him. You just gobbled him up. It was terrifying. How could you, you monster."

[cthonisprincess]

"Pwyll, you paragon of self-control, I would _die_ for you!" This is why I love Pwyll and Arawn's friendship in the myths. 

What's interesting is that Arawn had actually said that it was cool if Pwyll slept with his wife, but Pwyll had the self-control to not do so.

[gormauslander]

I'd like to take a moment to appreciate the greatest love story:

"I'm glad I found you. I was actually hoping we could get married. Yeah, there's this guy - gwawl, son of clud - and if I don't marry you I have to marry him. Interested?"

"Sure, you seem cool"

"Yuss!"/*fistpump*

[Anonymous-znxo]

We regret to inform you that you ate the baby

[DragonX]

WHAT??? A hero who isn't Mr. Steal-yo-girl??? We need more Bro-hero like him