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'''Mallt-y-Nos''' (''Matilda of the Night''), also known as the '''Night Mallt''',<ref>{{cite book |title=The history of early English literature: being the history of English poetry from its beginnings to the accession of King Ælfred |last=Brooke |first=Stopford Augustus |year=1892 |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyearlyeng01broogoog/page/n104 84] |url=https://archive.org/details/historyearlyeng01broogoog |quote=Mallt-y-Nos. |access-date=October 10, 2010}}</ref> is a [[crone]] in [[Welsh mythology]] who rides with [[Arawn]] and the [[hound]]s ([[Cŵn Annwn]]) of the [[Wild Hunt]], chasing sorrowful, lost souls to [[Annwn]]. The Mallt-y-Nos drives the hounds onward with shrieks and wails, which some say are evil and malicious in nature.<ref name="Wales">{{cite book |title=Folk-lore and folk-stories of Wales |last=Trevelyan |first=Marie |year=1973 |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |isbn= 9780854099382|page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zmYHrsC6cYIC&q=%22Mallt-y-Nos%22&pg=PA49 |access-date=October 10, 2010}}</ref> |
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Others say that she was once a beautiful but impious noblewoman who loved hunting so much that she said, "If there is no hunting in heaven, I would rather not go!" She is said to have regretted making this wish, and now cries out |
Others say that she was once a beautiful but impious noblewoman who loved hunting so much that she said, "If there is no hunting in heaven, I would rather not go!" She is said to have regretted making this wish, and now cries out in misery rather than joy as she hunts forever in the night sky.<ref name="Wales" /> |
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in misery rather than joy as she hunts forever in the night sky.<ref name="Wales" /> |
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As the myth of Mallt-y-Nos hinges around sightings of her ghostly hunting party around Christmas time, there are distinct parallels to be drawn between this Celtic spirit and the Norse legend of Odin, who also leads a ghostly hunting party through the night skies in Scandinavia during the Winter Solstice. |
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==In popular culture== |
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Mallt-y-Nos features in Tom Siddell's ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' as one of the many spirit guides that assist the dead with their transition. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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* {{cite book |title=The doom of Colyn Dolphyn: a poem, with notes illustrative of various traditions of Glamorganshire |last=Williams |first=Taliesin |year=1837 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme and co. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/doomcolyndolphy00willgoog/page/n75 71]–73 |url=https://archive.org/details/doomcolyndolphy00willgoog |quote=Mallt-y-Nos. |access-date=October 10, 2010}} |
* {{cite book |title=The doom of Colyn Dolphyn: a poem, with notes illustrative of various traditions of Glamorganshire |last=Williams |first=Taliesin |year=1837 |publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme and co. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/doomcolyndolphy00willgoog/page/n75 71]–73 |url=https://archive.org/details/doomcolyndolphy00willgoog |quote=Mallt-y-Nos. |access-date=October 10, 2010}} |
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Latest revision as of 08:26, 13 October 2024
Mallt-y-Nos (Matilda of the Night), also known as the Night Mallt,[1] is a crone in Welsh mythology who rides with Arawn and the hounds (Cŵn Annwn) of the Wild Hunt, chasing sorrowful, lost souls to Annwn. The Mallt-y-Nos drives the hounds onward with shrieks and wails, which some say are evil and malicious in nature.[2]
Others say that she was once a beautiful but impious noblewoman who loved hunting so much that she said, "If there is no hunting in heaven, I would rather not go!" She is said to have regretted making this wish, and now cries out in misery rather than joy as she hunts forever in the night sky.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Brooke, Stopford Augustus (1892). The history of early English literature: being the history of English poetry from its beginnings to the accession of King Ælfred. Macmillan and Co. p. 84. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
Mallt-y-Nos.
- ^ a b Trevelyan, Marie (1973). Folk-lore and folk-stories of Wales. Kessinger Publishing. p. 49. ISBN 9780854099382. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
External links
[edit]- Williams, Taliesin (1837). The doom of Colyn Dolphyn: a poem, with notes illustrative of various traditions of Glamorganshire. Longman, Rees, Orme and co. pp. 71–73. Retrieved October 10, 2010.
Mallt-y-Nos.