The stranger agrees to these terms, and his captives are freed and the land restored. Asked by the third stranger what he wishes in return for the mouse's life, he demands the release of Pryderi and Rhiannon and the lifting of the curse from Dyved. Three strangers turn up in succession to offer him gifts if he will spare the mouse.
He decides to hang it for theft the next day. Manawyddan watches over the third field, sees it destroyed by mice, and catches one of them. The next night the second field is destroyed. They sow three fields of wheat, but the first is destroyed before it can be harvested. Manawyddan and Cigfa return to Llogres as shoemakers, but are once again forced to leave so they return to Dyved. The same fate befalls her, and the castle disappears. Rhiannon goes to investigate and finds Pryderi clinging to a bowl, unable to speak. Against Manawyddan's advice Pryderi goes inside, and does not return.
Pryderi and Manawyddan follow a white boar to a mysterious castle. Their work is of such quality that the local craftsmen cannot compete, and drive them from town to town.įinally they return to Dyved and become hunters again. They support themselves by hunting at first, then move to the larger realm of Llogres where they make a living making saddles, shields and shoes. There Pryderi is reunited with his wife Cigfa and Manawyddan marries Pryderi's mother Rhiannon.Īn enchantment descends on the land, leaving it a wasteland empty of all domesticated animals and humans apart from the four protagonists. In the wake of the tragedy that befell the Children of Llyr, Prince Pryderi of Dyved returns to his realm with Manawyddan, the last survivor of the family. The novel is a retelling of the story of the Third Branch of the Mabinogion, Manawydan Fab Llŷr ( Manawyddan, son of Llŷr). The other three novels in the series are The Island of the Mighty (1936), The Children of Llyr (1971), and Prince of Annwn (1974). The novel has also been published in translation in several European languages.
It has been reprinted a number of times since, and gathered together with Walton's other Mabinogion novels by Overlook Press as the omnibus The Mabinogion Tetralogy in 2002. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifty-first volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August, 1972. The Song of Rhiannon is a fantasy novel by American writer Evangeline Walton, the third in a series of four based on the Welsh Mabinogion.
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