The MabinogionJ. M. Dent, 1974 - 282 pages The Mabinogion are the earliest prose stories of the literature of Britain. The stories were compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th-13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. There are two main source manuscripts, created c. 1350-1410, as well as a few earlier fragments. The title covers a collection of eleven prose stories of widely different types, offering drama, philosophy, romance, tragedy, fantasy and humour, and created by various narrators over time. There is a classic hero quest, "Culhwch and Olwen"; a historic legend in "Lludd and Llefelys," complete with glimpses of a far off age; and other tales portray a very different King Arthur from the later popular versions. The highly sophisticated complexity of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi defies categorisation. The stories are so diverse that it has been argued that they are not even a true collection |
Contents
CONTENTS | x |
INTRODUCTION by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones ix | xxxiii |
THE DREAM OF MACSEN WLEDIG | 79 |
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