Son of the sorcerer Eliavres. Lorigal’s mother was a mare. Eliavres had been forced to copulate with the mare after King Caradoc of Nantes found Eliavres sleeping with Caradoc’s wife. Rachel Bromwich (Grout, 43) suggested Lluagor (“Host-Splitter”), Caradoc’s horse in the Triads, as an origin.