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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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==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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* {{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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{{Celtic mythology (Welsh)}} |
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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.
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- ^ 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.