Authors: Everyman's Library, Thomas Jones (Translator), John Updike
ISBN-13: 9780375411755, ISBN-10: 0375411755
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: February 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones were, respectively, Professor of English at Aberystwyth and Cardiff and Professor of Welsh at Aberystwyth. They are the authors of numerous works of scholarship in Welsh and in English.
John Updike, novelist, poet, and critic, is perhaps best known for his four Rabbit novels, published in Everyman's Library as Rabbit Angstrom.
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Preface by John Updike
The 11 stories of The Mabinogion, first assembled on paper in the fourteenth century, reach far back into the earlier oral traditions of Welsh poetry.
Closely linked to the Arthurian legendsKing Arthur himself is a characterthey summon up a world of mystery and magic that is still evoked by the Welsh landscape they so vividly describe. Mingling fantasy with tales of chivalry, these stories not only prefigure the later medieval romances, but stand on their own as magnificent evocations of a golden age of Celtic civilization.
This translation of The Mabinogion has, since its first appearance in 1949, been recognized as a classic in its own right. It was last revised by Gwyn Jones and his wife, Mair, in 1993.
Preface | ix | |
Maps | xiv | |
Introduction | xvii | |
Note on the Editors and the Text | xxxix | |
Note on Pronunciation of Welsh Names | xl | |
Select Bibliography | xliii | |
The Four Branches of the Mabinogi | ||
Pwyll Prince of Dyfed | 3 | |
Branwen Daughter of Llyr | 23 | |
Manawydan Son of Llyr | 38 | |
Math Son of Mathonwy | 50 | |
The Four Independent Native Tales | ||
The Dream of Macsen Wledig | 71 | |
Lludd and Llefelys | 80 | |
Culhwch and Olwen | 85 | |
The Dream of Rhonabwy | 122 | |
The Three Romances | ||
The Lady of the Fountain | 139 | |
Peredur Son of Efrawg | 164 | |
Gereint Son of Erbin | 203 | |
Textual Notes | 243 | |
Supplementary Textual Notes | 247 | |
Index of Proper Names | 249 |