Cath Palug
Ringkasan
Cath Palug ("Kucing Palug") adalah kucing raksasa dalam mitologi Wales yang dikaitkan dengan legenda Arthurian, lahir dari babi Henwen dan menghantui Anglesey sampai diburu Kay.
Cath Palug ('Palug's Cat') is a monstrous cat of Welsh myth tied to Arthurian legend, born of the sow Henwen, haunting Anglesey until Kay hunted it.
Kisah dan tradisi
Cath Palug (juga Cath Paluc, Cath Balug, Cath Balwg, harfiah "Kucing Palug") adalah kucing raksasa dalam mitologi Wales (Welsh) yang dikaitkan dengan legenda Arthurian. Dilahirkan di Gwynedd oleh babi Henwen dari Cornwall, kucing itu menghantui Pulau Anglesey sampai Kay datang memburunya. Di luar Wales, lawannya dialihkan menjadi Raja Arthur sendiri atau, kadang, pahlawan lain seperti Ogier the Dane; dalam sastra Prancis (French) namanya Chapalu. Nama Wales itu mungkin berarti "kucing pencakar", sedangkan bentuk Prancis Chapalu dapat diurai menjadi chat "kucing" + palu "rawa", "kucing rawa". Cath Palug selalu ditempatkan dekat air, seperti danau Lac du Bourget dan Danau Jenewa di Prancis, atau laut di Wales. Menurut Welsh Triads (akhir abad ketiga belas), ia dilahirkan sebagai anak kucing oleh babi putih besar Henwen di batu hitam di Llanfair, dibuang ke laut, menyeberangi Selat Menai, dan dibesarkan putra-putra Palug di Anglesey tanpa menyadari ia akan menjadi salah satu dari tiga wabah besar pulau itu. Dalam puisi Wales Kuno Pa Gur di Black Book of Carmarthen, Cai (Kay) tersirat bertarung dan membunuhnya. Menurut artikel fr, dalam La Bataille Loquifer Chapalu lahir dari peri Brunehaut dan berusaha kembali menjadi manusia, dan beberapa teks serta sebuah mosaik menggambarkan pertarungan Raja Arthur melawannya.
Known as Cath Palug, Cath Paluc, Cath Balug or Cath Balwg, that is 'Palug's Cat', this is a monstrous feline of Welsh myth linked with Arthurian legend. Born in Gwynedd to the sow Henwen of Cornwall, it haunted the Isle of Anglesey until Kay came to hunt it down. Outside Wales its foe became King Arthur himself or now and then other heroes such as Ogier the Dane; in French literature it is Chapalu. The Welsh name may mean 'scratching cat', while the French Chapalu splits into chat 'cat' + palu 'bog', 'the bog cat'. Cath Palug is always set near water, such as Lac du Bourget and Lake Geneva in France, or the sea in Wales. In the Welsh Triads (late thirteenth century) it was born as a kitten to the great white sow Henwen at the black rock in Llanfair, cast into the sea, crossed the Menai Strait and was raised by the sons of Palug on Anglesey, unaware it would become one of the island's three great plagues. In the Old Welsh poem Pa Gur in the Black Book of Carmarthen, Cai (Kay) is implied to fight and kill it. According to the fr article, in La Bataille Loquifer Chapalu is born of the fairy Brunehaut and seeks to become human again, and some texts and a mosaic show King Arthur fighting it.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Wales
- Kawasan / Region
- Eropa
- Negara / Country
- GB, FR
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Legendary Creature
- Habitat
- Water
Nama lain / Alternate names
Chapalu, Capalus, Cath Balwg
Tahukah kamu? / Did you know?
Menurut Welsh Triads, Cath Palug dilahirkan oleh babi raksasa Henwen lalu dibuang ke laut, tetapi berenang menyeberangi Selat Menai ke Anglesey.
In the Welsh Triads, Cath Palug was born to the giant sow Henwen and cast into the sea, but swam across the Menai Strait to Anglesey.