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Re: Mab


Poster: einar@cvn.net (einar)

At 10:35 PM 4/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Poster: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@lan2wan.com>
>
>On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Susan and Ken Reed wrote:
>
>> I thought I was very familiar with the _Mabinogion_, having read most of
>> its stories scores of times and studying them in considerable depth, but I
>> cannot recall seeing a single reference to "Queen Mab" or any female
>> character called "Mab." Could you be more specific about where she appears?
>
>I don't recall the name either.  It's been a while since I read the
>_Mabinogion_, though.
>
>> There is, however, a rather prominent character in "Culhwch and Olwen"
>> called Mabon ap Modron, or "Son, son of Mother"; he is very definitely male
>> and his associations are a different kettle of salmon indeed ;-). It would
>> easy to see how the names could become confused.
>
>Does Mab or Mabh have any connection with the Queen Maeve of Connacht?
>
>In Service,
>Istvan Dragosani


*That's* where I'd heard the name!  Yes, that is the connection.  Mab, the
watered down Faerie Queen, derives from the Irish queen (some say goddess).
 I had replied (quite vaguely, though) to the original query privately that
I believed it to be of Irish origin.  That being the case, you'll never
find her in the Mabinogi.  Thanks for jogging my memory, Istvan.

Batman, why aren't you weighing in on this one?  I *know* you've got the
books on this.

Elen Prydydd

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