Bleiddwn (from the Welsh ''blaidd'', "Wolf") appears in the fourth of the

Four Branches of the Mabinogi The ''Four Branches of the Mabinogi'' or ''Pedair Cainc Y Mabinogi'' are the earliest prose stories in the literature of Britain. Originally written in Wales in Middle Welsh, but widely available in translations, the ''Mabinogi'' is generally agr ...

and is one of the three sons of Gwydion and Gilfaethwy. As punishment for the rape of Goewin,

Math Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

banished his nephews, turning them into a breeding pair of deer for a year, then pigs, and finally wolves. They had three children over the three years: Hyddwn, Hychddwn, and Bleiddwn. Bleiddwn is the offspring of the

wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...

pairing. Math took him and transformed him into a human being, baptising him Bleiddwn ("Wolf-man").

References

* Ifans, Dafydd & Rhiannon, ''Y Mabinogion'' (Gomer 1980) Welsh mythology {{europe-myth-stub