Cyledr Wyllt (English: ''Cyledr the Wild'') is a warrior and
madman
Pierfrancesco Botrugno (born 25 July 1988), better known by the stage name Madman sometimes stylized as MadMan is an Italian rapper.
Biography
Early years, ''Escape from Heart''
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in
Welsh mythology, known from the early Arthurian tale ''
Culhwch and Olwen''.
Cyledr is named as one of the warriors who joins
Gwythyr ap Greidawl's failed attack on love rival
Gwyn ap Nudd and is imprisoned by the enemy following the conflict, alongside his father Nwython and several others. Gwyn later murders Nwython and, subsequently, forces Cyledr to eat his father's heart. After sustaining such torture at his captive's hands, Cyledr went mad, thus earning the epithet ''Gwyllt''.
Later in the tale,
Arthur heads
north to find Cyledr, and eventually catches him. Cyledr later assists Arthur in the
hunting of Twrch Trwyth and is personally responsible for retrieving the shears from the
boar.
References
Welsh mythology
Arthurian characters
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