The Mabinogion

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Matt Addis

Compiled in Middle Welsh during the 12th and 13th centuries, The Mabinogion is a mesmerizing panorama of fantasy, romance, tragedy and humor. Blending Arthurian romance, Welsh legend and mythology, it tells tales of heroic knights, fair maidens, dramatic battles and magical beasts across 12 fantastical stories. These comprise the 'Three Welsh Romances', Arthurian tales that also appear in the work of Chrétien de Troyes; the myths of Branwen, Pwyll Manawydan and Math; and the five 'native tales', which include a romance about the Roman emperor Magnus Maximus. It continues to inspire writers today and is said to have influenced Alan Garner's The Owl Service and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion.

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Welsh Folklore

The Mabinogion was a set of eleven Arthurian tales from Welsh legend. One of the stories involved a man that was chasing a woman that rode a horse. No matter how fast his servant’s horse ran he could never catch her until he ask her to stop. Most the stories were filled with task that someone had to complete to obtain something that they wanted. Another story was intwined with the magic of a witch for a King to gain a throne. Another story is about the Black Knight who fights against Arthur’s men until he is defeated. At the end, one of the characters enters King Arthur’s court, but out side of that King Arthur only exist on the tongues of characters. The book was hard to follow and very dry at time, but did have spots that were intriguing. This is a book of that I might have to read against to get the full gist of the stories. I seemed to retain only bits and pieces of the stories. This book was a follow up to The Path of Druidry because it mentioned The Mabinogion so often in a way reverencing it as a Druid holy book. However, I dod see some begets listed in it that reminded me of the Bible but as a whole couldn’t see any connection that should have formed a religious connect within the stories. Myth, folklore, yes, religion, no. And thst was the main reason that I read the book was to get a better understand of its connection with modern and ancient Druids, but I found nothing significant.

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