Tegid Foel is the husband ofCeridwen inWelsh mythology. His name rendered into English would be "Tacitus the Bald". In folklore, Tegid Foel is associated withLlyn Tegid inGwynedd and may have been the tutelary deity of that lake.
Tegid Foel is known chiefly from the story ofTaliesin's birth, first recorded in full in the 16th century but dating to a much earlier period. According to the story, he lived by Llyn Tegid in the region ofPenllyn with his wife, the sorceress Ceridwen. Together they had two children, a beautiful daughter named Creirwy and a sonMorfran, calledAfagddu ("utter darkness") because of his dark skin and hideous looks. Tegid's name is mentioned several times in Welsh literature in thepatronymic of his more famous son Mofran; it appears in theMabinogion talesCulhwch and Olwen[1] andThe Dream of Rhonabwy,[2] and inWelsh Triads 24 and 41.[3] Apart from Creirwy and Morfran the Welsh genealogies also name other children of Tegid. TheVitae Sanctorum Britanniae et Genealogiae gives the following lineage: "Afan Buellt son of Cedig son of Ceredig son ofCunedda Wledig by Degfed ["Tenth"] daughter of Tegid Foel"; Rawlins MS B gives another genealogy naming another daughter, Dwywai.[4]
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