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Name: The Mabinogion

Author: Unknown
Year: 1410
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Fantasy, Classic, Poetry

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ISBNs:
9780140443226
0140443223

The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: mabÉªËˆnÉ”É¡jÉ”n) is a collection of 11 prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs and early medieval historical traditions. While some details may hark back to older Iron Age traditions, each of the tales is the product of a developed medieval Welsh narrative tradition, both oral and written.

Lady Charlotte Guest in the mid 19th century was the first to publish English translations of the collection, popularising the name "Mabinogion". The stories appear in either or both of two medieval Welsh manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch or Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, written c.1350, and the Red Book of Hergest or Llyfr Coch Hergest, written c.1382 â€“ 1410, tho texts or fragments of some of the tales have been preserved in earlier 13th century and later mss.

Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing mss, but disagree over just how much older. The different texts originated at different times.