In the encounter, nine score (180) warriors were killed by the cat. Kay had gone to destroy lleown (possibly meaning "lions") in Môn (Anglesey). Pa Gur Ĭath Palug was fought and slain by Cai ( Sir Kay), or so it is implied, in the incomplete poem " Pa Gur yv y Porthaur" ("What man is the porter"), found in the Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin (The Black Book of Carmarthen, written before 1250). There the kitten was cast into the sea, but it crossed the Menai Strait and was found on Ynys Môn ( Angelsey), where the sons of Palug raised it, not realizing Cath Palug was to become one of the three great plagues of the island. Triads Ĭath Palug's birth origins are given in "The Powerful Swineherds" in the Welsh Triads ( Trioedd Ynys Prydain, end of the 13th century).Īccording to this source, it started life as a black kitten (lit "whelp"), given birth by the great white sow Henwen at the black rock in Llanfair. The Cath Palug is always localised nearby water lake of Bourget and Lake of Geneva in France, the sea in Wales (See §Localisation).Ĭath Palug is mentioned in just two works among early Welsh sources, the triads and a fragmentary poem. The monstrous cat of Lausanne, which was the analogue in the Vulgate Merlin started out as a black kitten caught by a fisherman in his net. It was a sort of fish-cat which was the killer of King Arthur (and thus analogous to the chapalu) in a fragmentary German poem ( §Manuel und Amande). Ĭhapalu, the French form can be broken down into chat "cat" + palu "bog", hence "the bog cat" and in the Anglo-Norman poem (see §Li Romanz des Franceis) Chapalu and palu are connected in the story (the words are end-rhymed in the couplet). The word palug ( paluc) is theorized to have a common pal- stem, which may mean: "hit, strike" "cut, lop" "scratch, claw", or even "dig, pierce". The name Cat Palug may mean "scratching cat", but this is just one of a range of possible meanings.
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