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Gender Masculine
Usage Arthurian Cycle, Literature
Meaning & History
In the First Continuation of Chrétien’s Perceval, a half-man, half-boar who was the product of a union between the sorcerer Eliavres and a sow. King Caradoc of Nantes had discovered that Eliavres was having an affair with Caradoc’s wife, and he forced Eliavres to copulate with the pig as punishment.There is probably a connection to Twrch Trwyth of Welsh legend.