In Welsh mythology

Welsh mythology

Welsh mythology, the remnants of the mythology of the pre-Christian Britons, has come down to us in much altered form in medieval Welsh manuscripts such as the Red Book of Hergest, the White Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin and the Book of Taliesin....

, Creirwy is a figure in the Mabinogion

Mabinogion

The Mabinogion is the title given to a collection of eleven prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs, and early medieval historical traditions...

 and the Hanes Taliesin, the story of Taliesin

Taliesin

Taliesin was an early British poet of the post-Roman period whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin...

's life.

She is described as the very beautiful daughter of Ceridwen

Ceridwen

In Welsh medieval legend, Ceridwen , also spelled Cerridwen, was an enchantress, mother of Morfran and a beautiful daughter Creirwy. Her husband was Tegid Foel, and they lived near Bala Lake in north Wales...

 and Tegid Foel

Tegid Foel

Tegid Foel is the husband of Ceridwen in Welsh mythology. His name rendered into English would be "Tacitus the Bald". In folklore, Tegid Foel is associated with Llyn Tegid in Gwynedd and may have been the tutelary deity of that lake....

, born in Penllyn

Penllyn

Penllyn is a former civil parish in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. The parish was created in 1894 from the part of Criccieth parish that lay outside the ancient borough. It was abolished in 1934, and divided between Llanystumdwy and Criccieth....

 in Powys

Powys

Powys is a local-government county and preserved county in Wales.-Geography:Powys covers the historic counties of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, most of Brecknockshire , and a small part of Denbighshire — an area of 5,179 km², making it the largest county in Wales by land area.It is...

. She has a dark-skinned and gruesome brother, Morfran. Her half-brother is Gwion Bach (the youth-name of Taliesin). She does not appear in the stories about Afaggdu and Taliesin.

Literature

• Rachel Bromwich
  Rachel Bromwich
  Rachel Bromwich was a British scholar. Her focus was on medieval Welsh literature, and was Emeritus Reader in Celtic Languages and Literature at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge until her death...
  
  : Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain. University Of Wales Press 2006, ISBN 0-7083-1386-8.
• http://books.google.at/books?id=7AvdTqwucfwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Bernhard+Maier&hl=de&ei=7WaUTenHMY_r4gbi8a3VDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=falseBernhard Maier
  Bernhard Maier
  Bernhard Maier is a German professor of religious studies, who publishes mainly on Celtic culture and religion....
  
  : Dictionary of Celtic religion and culture. Boydell & Brewer, 1997, ISBN 9780851156606.]