The Mabinogion · 178 of 191 · tr. Lady Charlotte Guest

Tale THE STORY OF LLUDD AND LLEVELYS-d

And a fierce encounter was between them, so that the glittering fire flew out from their arms.

And at the last Lludd grappled with him, and fate bestowed the victory on Lludd.

And he threw the plague to the earth.

And after he had overcome him by strength and might, he besought his mercy.

“How can I grant thee mercy,” said the king, “after all the many injuries and wrongs that thou hast done me?” “All the losses that ever I have caused thee,” said he, “I will make thee atonement for, equal to what I have taken.

And I will never do the like from this time forth.

But thy faithful vassal will I be.” And the king accepted this from him.

And thus Lludd freed the Island of Britain from the three plagues.

And from thenceforth until the end of his life, in prosperous peace did Lludd the son of Beli rule the Island of Britain.

And this Tale is called the Story of Lludd and Llevelys.

And thus it ends.

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Themes

Animismcosmology

The doctrine and worldview that natural phenomena, places, and objects possess inherent spirit, soul, or personality — and that the cosmos is populated by countless local, plural, embodied divine agents: kami in mountain and tree, sidhe in cairn and well, landwights in field and stone, nymphs in spring and grove, haltija in forest and lake, lares and penates in household and threshold, Iamblichean daemons in element and place. Distinct from monotheism (single transcendent God), pantheism (one underlying substance), and emanation_hierarchy (cascading single source); animism's signature is the plurality, locality, and embodied-in-landscape character of the divine.

The narrative treats plagues as sentient spiritual agents capable of affecting the land and interacting with humans.

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