5/20/2023 0 Comments The Mabinogion by Unknown![]() ![]() Author(s), Unknown, generally believed to be a scribe from Dyfed. Dragons, witches, and giants live alongside kings and heroes, and quests of honor, revenge, and love are set against the backdrop of a country struggling to retain its independence.Sioned Davies's lively translation re-creates the storytelling world of medieval Wales and reinvests the tales with the power of performance. Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed, Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, is a legendary tale from medieval Welsh literature and the first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. ![]() ![]() Book Summary :Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever seen.Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as The Mabinogion.They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin of hanging a pregnant mouse and hunting a magical boar. ![]()
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