Culhwch and Olwen FINALE || Mythology with Dael Kingsmill

[@MonarchsFactory]

Dresnat making their way through the comments to shame people for making puns is my favourite thing.

[@fictionsoreal]

"Witched Based Boxing Matches" fucking killed me

[@pellaw8011]

the auto-generated subtitles, especially for when you say "ysbaddaden pencawr", are hilarious

[@wildbronco038]

Glad you're doing better, Dael! Also, this myth sounds like a D&D campaign that got *way* out of hand

[@Thefurnaceguy8488]

"I attack the porter." "You what?" "I mean, I stab the porter with my sword." "You're here to talk to... Nevermind. Roll for it."

[@omarnajam]

"So, the important people, who are the important people?!" - how Dael announces her arrival at every party we go to

[@edwardblacklock2446]

So sorry to hear about your kidney stones, as a chronic sufferer you have my sympathies. I love your channel, keep up the great work and I hope you dont get any more stones.

[@361patti]

only just caught this.. Thank you so much ! My school emblem was the Twrch Trwyth ! We were never told the story behind the boar.. You have done a marvellous job explaining a very dense text. I absolutely loved it ! Well done on pronunciation too!

[@stevesworld7827]

Im Welsh, love this story

[@BeCurieUs]

Made it to the end, was a close shave, but we made it

[@Dresnat]

Come on, man.

[@BeCurieUs]

:P

[@Dresnat]

That is the appropriate response, haha.

[@thegreenmage6956]

Dear Dael; Thank you so much for doing some Welsh tales justice with your signature zeal as only you can. I am Welsh myself and have been wading through the muddy mess of the stories and legends of my culture, here to tell you it is not just you, we all think the stories are rather complicated. If you might try some more, perhaps less long-winded Welsh stories, I would suggest the 1st Branch of the Mabinogion - as I'm sure you will know, it is much shorter and features interactions with the Irish and that Cauldron you mentionned ;) . No but it is great, Bran the Blessed's disembodied head entertains his companions for 50 years after the great battle in which he was slain, at a pimpin' ballers and bro's resort, banqueting all day long until they accidentally open the wrong shutters and the illusion flies away with the wind, such fun.

[@BoMwarriorVlog]

The Green Mage, since you happen to be like-minded, would you be willing to send me or trade any of your fav Irish, Welsh, Celtic story references? =j I seem to only find the folk tales easier to understand (& more fun).

[@amysantos2583]

You should have a podcast where you talk about mythology books, myths you haven't mentioned, different types of mythology etc. I would totally listen to that.

[@niraofgallifrey315]

I was the one who asked for a reminder who the characters are and this was very helpful and it also feels very weird to have you talking specifically about me in your video, anyway, thanks (:

[@sheetedkid]

"Ch-ch-ch-Chip and me, Rescue Rangers..." This cracked me up :) Sorry to hear about your kidney stones, Dael; my brother and my dad have both had them, and they sound really horrific. (By "they", I mean the kidney stones, not my male relatives.)

[@Axiie]

"Wow, this ancient library is so dusty. Cray-cray-crazy dusty. Ooo, a book? Wonder what it's called. Just get this layer of dust off... Hmmm, Culhwch and Olwen Epic? Go on, let's have a read." Been ploughing through your Mythology videos for a bit, leaving a comment to say top stuff. Know it's not recent, but it's hella awesome and inspiring (and weird... so very weird). Thank you for making them!

[@django3422]

"So where did we leave it last time? Arthur was a PRICK..." This. This is how mythology should be taught.

[@jbishop72]

Twrch is pronounced Toork (roll the r) - only know this cause I lived in a place called Cwmtwrch (Valley of the Boar) legend has it, the River Twrch that flows through the village was named after the same legend of the boar you have told. :D

[@miscellaneousshadow7452]

This has been an amazing journey. I love your stuff.

[@tedhenkle]

Thank you for the foray into Welsh Mythology and I know it’s been about a year now, but I hope you’re feeling better from your bout with kidney stones. Best wishes to you and all your endeavors.

[@bawesome330]

ahhhh! feel better Dael glad to see your well enough to upload/work take care of yourself.

[@PeacefulPagoda]

Glad you are alive, yo. Even gladder to have reached the end of this weird, wild story haha

[@Xecluriab]

This whole series was a RIDE.

[@josearroyo8008]

This story would make a great Kings Quest game

[@christopherthompson9855]

You missed the part when Olwen has mushrooms growing from her feet. It’s a very important part of the story…

[@Telleryn]

Wait, did you say that exposition about the pigs was boar-ing? :D

[@Dresnat]

You're better than this.

[@OmenGaming69]

Just to say, Gwrhyr's full name translates to "Old man, Interpreter of Languages". His name is just his personality traits. We were not good at naming characters ...

[@kristianfischer9814]

Meanwhile, nine years later, Dael finishes her foray into Welsh mythology... :D

[@controllerfreak3596]

in my campaign I made an npc that can speak any language, he's a galeb duhr (but a more evolved form that can fit in my modern urban fantasy game and blend in with humans) and their special ability is that his race understands and knows any word that is carved into stone anywhere in the cosmology. so when they figure this out my players immediately carve "crackalackin" into stone. so now crackalackin is a thing the galeb duhr say.

[@sam.k44]

so when we got to the certain hiding fistacuff having witch i couldn't breath i was laughing so hard

[@rasnac]

After everything that happened since the beginning of this bizarre bizarre, "even-weirder-than-the-new-season-of-Twin-Peaks" story, including the kidney stones (get well soon, Dale. I had emergency surgery for gallbladder stones, and I can imagine how much pain you were in); I am pretty sure this tale is CURSED. So I am more than relieved that it ended before a giant meteor crashed at earth or something. :)

[@denolaj]

On the other hand, the US and North Korea are priming themselves for nuclear war now... ;)

[@rasnac]

o__0

[@janrudzki5651]

Dael! I can see Talisman in the background! Is it the super old version or the recent release??

[@MonarchsFactory]

The old one! Second edition with the puzzle style board.

[@scottsmartky]

As someone who treats Twitter like Kidney Stones, I didn't know about your troubles. Get better soon, Dael. Hopefully, it was just an old Welsh curse, and once you go back to the safe and sane (ha!) Greek and Roman myths, you'll become 100% healthy again. Look at it this way, at least you're Australian and have good health insurance.

[@Cartoonicus]

Wait, did I miss it? Did it ever actually introduce Olwen???

[@garvinanders2355]

Huh, Witches are surprisingly good at bare-knuckle boxing. Good to know. I'm gonna add this into the NPC witches in my campaign.

[@DeusViator]

The river Severn is just pronounced Seven for future info. 13:01 I see they're also from the GRRM school of storytelling. Build everything up for years! ... They took the castle.

[@ajmeyers5661]

When the MCU get their hands on this story it's going to be a 30-movie series

[@MushVPeets]

There's enough terrifying crap under the ocean without a band of super-powered, intelligent, amphibious boar-things residing in the Mariana Trench (or, more likely, the Irish or Celtic Sea). No thank you.

[@Antenox]

2:20 OMG I was seriously just listening to the Rescue Rangers theme last night! Just after watching the new DuckTales, lol

[@nicholasdeangelis3695]

Check out that fun read. I must say from personal experience telling the story of sidartha has been fundamental to understanding storytelling, and I personally enjoyed reading that book .And if that's orange juice ahhhh 🍊 vitamins ha

[@farmerboy916]

Oh man, my mom had kidney problems on and off for years; you have all my current sympathy

[@jukkiske]

"Don't drink orange juice! You'll get kindey stones!" - One of my mother's many nuggets of dubious facts.

[@socialistshirker]

I can certainly see why some people think it was originally two tales, one with Culhwch and Olwen and the other with Arthur and the magic pig king. Many Welsh legends, over the millenia, have encountered someone who thinks "You know what would make this cooler? King Arthur!". Tristan and Isolde. Peredur ap Efrawg. The Lives of the Saints almost all involve Arthur as a convenient antagonist the saint can overcome with his holiness, even though they take place hundreds of years apart. This phenomenon is particularly obvious in the Welsh Triads, where you can see Arthur has been added later because he's not one of the three in the triad. Arthur appears in some of them, he's one of the Three Frivolous Bards of Britain, he was responsible for one of the Three Disclosures of the Island of Britain, and his son was one of the Three Well Endowed Men of the Island of Britain. But the with the Three Generous Men of the Island of Britain and the Three Exalted Prisoners of the Island of Britain Arthur just gets tacked on the end with a "and Arthur was more generous than the three".

[@ashleyhoughton8592]

Do you think this myth has cultural roots leading back to the story of the Argonauts? Seems reminiscent of them turning up to the paranoid king and having to sew the dragons teeth. Even like the comb in the boar, and Aphrodites comb being such a focus. Like this is the insane Chinese whisper of that story after traveling a continent and making very little sense.

[@ashleyhoughton8592]

And like 'the blood of a witch' = the female sorcerer using Prometheus blood for potions.

[@yummifoamycoffecheese45]

What I learned: Welsh legends are D&D campaigns gone wrong.

[@danielmckeown3290]

Oh so I'm guessing this is the origin of the Severn boar, this is such a random story but now it links to something irl. Glad you told this story one of the funniest just because of how ridiculous and disjointed this is.

[@BoMwarriorVlog]

Thanks for another wonderful story, I hope you're getting better Miss Dael! 😊 ...and you didn't need the eyeliner btw. 😉

[@VillainQueen]

I wonder will you ever go into the the story from the Ulster cycle? Or into germanic storys like the one of Siegfried? Anyways it's great to listen and watch your videos as always

[@marctelfer6159]

"juice juice a-juicy juice"... Was that a Mighty Boosh reference? :)

[@scienceguy8888]

Moral of the story, Dael should not drink orange juice on set, makes her forget everything :P PS: I hope you feel better now, kidney stones are terrible and evil! May your kidneys be safe and stone free from now on!

[@The_McRib]

Those welsh do enjoy a confusing story!

[@DaBezzzz]

Lots of natural 1s rolled on this campaign

[@ninegreydaisies]

Is that passionfruit juice?

[@villen86]

At 15:24 when she kinda confirms our suspicions that there is more than orange juice in that glass.

[@BoMwarriorVlog]

villen86, wait what did you notice? 😕 I was guessing Miss Dael was just on pain meds (hence the slapping of her face to be more alert). 😏

[@spannycat2]

Oooh, if you´re still interested in Finn McCool, there´s a story about him pursuing Diarmuid and Grainne.

[@alexanderlundberg5644]

Wouldn't this have been much easier for them if they had recruited Atalanta the Huntress? I've heard she was good at hunting boars. I've been following along in the source text you linked, and it was cool, except the insanely repetitive parts that you thankfully moved past quickly while telling the story. If the practice boar you mentioned was Yskithyrwyn Penbaedd, I found that Yspaddaden Penkawr required the tusk of that boar to shave himself with, and therefore named this as one of the impossible tasks of Culhwch. After some googling I also found that Yspaddaden Penkawr is indeed a giant.

[@Geoffercake]

twigs and turquoise string/rope? attached to you doesn't quite summon treebeard to mind :p

[@dacow95]

So this isn't "Storytime with Mimosas by Dael"

[@codybarnes1531]

Wached all four. First wow good on ya for all that hot mess of a story. Now i know why people just killed people and took their daughters, so much less work. Also was Kie (dont know how it was spelled in welsh) actually Sir Kay like Authers foster bother and Bedower, Sir Bedivere, just yikes, idont know does it matter. Love the channel you keep doing you, also if you lost part of your soul to the list and names, then stay away from the Irish ulster cycle(s) Destruction of De' Degra's Hostel. Long story, but way shorter version; Irish King stays at De'degras place get bushwacked and killed by his brothers they die too and the Brittish pirate guy Ingcel the one eye(Euron Greyjoy basiaclly) who was backing the brothers lives and takes Ireland or somthing like that maybe he dies too. Anyway your cool. Peace Out.

[@farmerboy916]

This episode: lots of minor pig and cauldron related war crimes

[@Dresnat]

"Pig and Cauldron Related War Crimes" is going to be the name of my first album now.

[@ComradeBucket]

"Cawr" means giant in Welsh. Pen-Cawr = Chief of the giants. Big Fucking Giant. Etc

[@farmerboy916]

I feel like you could do a drunk mythology podcast or something

[@Dresnat]

Not with her kidneys, she's not. (even though that'd be hilarious)

[@TheMimiSard]

So is the juice good quality stuff? Because Berri juice from the non-chilled shelves is disgusting, while Nudie is spectacular, but not cheap.

[@thebeatisdead]

What a story! All this to get married.

[@RememberTheTrees]

That got too real near the end. There is a room surrounding that shelf.

[@Dresnat]

I like to steal these stories and re-tell them to the children at my work...Not sure how I'm going to do it with this one.

[@cryo180]

Are all Welsh myths like this?

[@RememberTheTrees]

Gods, I hope so.

[@condensermike]

Late to the party here, but kidney stones ain't no joke. Sorry!

[@zerotriple431]

Even with watching the first two parts, did this story really ever make sense? Also, get better Dael!

[@magecraft2]

Who else spent an age trying to get the blue treebeard picture :) ?

[@andrewjarrett8807]

Hello

[@CRabbit42]

Sorry about your kidney stones. I've heard that they really, really hurt. Are you on any pain meds? (Based on your behavior in this video, I'm guessing the answer is "Yes." And there's nothing wrong with any of it.)

[@A_Lo_TX]

Good luck with your kidneys. Great Vids.

[@thebpphantom]

#TrenchPigs

[@zaramth3826]

wow wasn't that some shit lol