The Anathemata

Mabinog’s Liturgy (continued)

We are not concerned with portrait

but it can be inferred that of her eyes, one was blemish’d.

David Jones notes

additional notes

In note 2 to page 194, DJ recalls that Aphrodite (the most beautiful of the goddesses) had a cast in her eye which did not impair her beauty (though I have not yet been able to to trace the source of his recollection).

comments

Gwenhwyfar is being compared to Aphrodite in beauty.

semantic structures

glossary