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Mabinogion

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The Secret Life of Books: The Mabinogion - Cerys Matthews

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Graduates of Pembroke: Ted Hughes, The Mabinogion, and Early Welsh literature, Katherine Robinson

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Part One, The Story of Pwyll (The Mabinogion)

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What is The Mabinogion?

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The Mabinogion - Extracts From The Four Branches (Oriel, 1976)

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. The two main source manuscripts were created c. 1350–1410, as well as a few earlier fragments. These stories offer drama, philosophy, romance, tragedy, fantasy and humour, and were created by various narrators over time. The title covers a collection of eleven prose stories of widely different types. There is a classic hero quest, "Culhwch and Olwen"; 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.