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Origin of the name TEGAN.
Etymology of the
name TEGAN.
Meaning of the baby name TEGAN.
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TEGAN.
Arthurian. The wife of Caradoc. She is also
called Tegau, which see.
Welsh name, derived from the vocabulary word tegan, meaning "plaything." (An
English and Welsh Dictionary, Evans, v.2, 1858)
Tegan
Eurvron, one of the three exalted ladies of the court of Arthur, was the
wife of Caradoc of the brawny arm; and bore the fame of pre-eminence in
chastity and other amiable virtues; thus was she appropriately
associated in the Triad, with the highly extolled Enid. Among the
comments on the "Boy and the Mantle" her claim to further
notice is incidentally brought forward. Warton imagines that
strange tale to be taken from an old French piece, entitled "Le
Court Mantel;" "but," adds Bishop Percy, from whose
"Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" we transplant this story,
"after all it is most likely that all the old stories concerning
king Arthur are originally of British growth, and that what the French
and other southern nations have of this kind, were at first exported
from this island." The Rev. Evan Evans, editor of
"Specimens of Welsh Poetry," confirms this opinion. He
says the story of the "Boy and the Mantle" is taken for what
is related in some of the old Welsh manuscripts of Tegan Eurvron, a lady
of king Arthur's court; she is said to have possessed a mantle that
would not fit any incontinent woman: this, which the old writers say was
reckoned among the curiosities of Britain, is often alluded to by the
old Welsh bards. (Heroines of Welsh History, Prichard, 1854)
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