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The Mabinogion
Sinoed Davies
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Description for The Mabinogion
Hardback.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198815242
SKU
9780198815242
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Ref
99-1
About Sinoed Davies
Sioned Davies is Chair of Welsh at Cardiff University. Her special interest is the interplay between literacy and the oral tradition, together with the performance aspects of medieval Welsh narrative. Her publications include Crefft y Cyfarwydd, a study of narrative techniques in the Mabinogion, The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, and a co-edited volume, The Horse in Celtic Culture: Medieval ... Read more
Reviews for The Mabinogion
...a frsh translation which clears away archaisms and preconceptions to privilege the clear voice of story...[and] which is linguistically rigorous yet ever awake to the requirements of both text and reader.
Institute of Translation and Interpreting
It may be said at once that the translation will have instant success. It will bring the tales to thousands of new ... Read more
Institute of Translation and Interpreting
It may be said at once that the translation will have instant success. It will bring the tales to thousands of new ... Read more