Retrieve Welsh Legends And Folk Tales Translated By Gwyn Jones Version

almost always enjoy reading Mythology, and the stories here were entertaining, Theres a lot of clearly purposeful repetition of themes, both within each tale, and among them in total, and many of them were unique, which was nice.
Like with a lot of actual Mythology not the toneddown versions forth Century childrens bed time stories or Disney movies, the stories are quite brutal at times, though not so much so that it obscures the point and/or moral.
But the fables were all exceptionally short here, so they felt more like summations than the full stories, Also: It needed a lot more Dragons, especially since were talkin Wales, and a Dragon was featured on the cover, So, this felt like a good introduction to Welsch Mythos, but it was hardly a filling feast,/Really fun to read what was taken as "history" in the dark ages, This was a really neat little minicompilation of the mabinogion, a collection of premedieval Welsh folk tales, including some of the first written tales of the legendary Arthur.
Table of Contents:
The four branches of story I, Pwyll and Pryderi. i. The marriage of Pwyll and Rhiannon
II, THe birth of Pryderi
II, The story of Branwen
III, The trials of Dyfed
IV, Lleu and the flowerface
The British Arthur I, The quest for Olwen. i. The destiny
ii. At Arthur's court
iii, In search of Olwen
iv, Fulfilling the tasks: The sword of Wrnach the giant
The oldest animals
The lame ant
The beard of Dillus the bearded
The everlasting battle
The tusk of Ysgithyrwyn
The hunting of the otherworld boar
The blood of the black witch
v.
Culhwch marries Olwen
II, How Trystan won esyllt
III, Rhitta

of the beards
IV, The dream of Rhonabwy
Tales old and new I, The dream of Macsen Wledig
II, The three plagues of Britain
III, Collen and the fair small folk
IV, The lad who returned from Faerye
V, Where Arthur sleeps
VI, The aged infant. VII. The woman of LlynYFan: i, The meeting
ii. The parting
iii. The sequel
VIII. Eight leaves of story: i, The three staunch swineherds of Britain
ii, The sigh of Gwyddno Longshank
iii, Baglan the builder
iv, A harp on the water
v, The man who killed his greyhound
vi, The sun of Llanfabon
vii, Redhat otter
viii. Cadwalader and all his goats
IX, The salt welsh sea
X, High eden. Unfortunately, this was my least favorite of the Oxford Myths amp Legends series that I've been reading, It has very few stories about love happy ones, at least or kindness, but lots of stories about warring armies, valor, power, and pride.
It was also quite violent, Definitely not a great source for children's bedtime stories,

There were, however, a few things that made the book fascinating to me, One was the crazy and amazing names! The pronunciation guide in the back was very helpful, and I highly recommend checking that out before you even begin reading the book.
Also for any fans of Tolkien or Lloyd Alexander's "The High King" series, there were many similar names, themes, and story elements, Son of a miner, Gwyn Jones became a schoolteacher, then lecturer, then Professor of English from, He was a novelist and short story writer, translator of The Mabinogion and Icelandic sagas, founder and editor of The Welsh , He became Chairman of the Welsh Arts Council and was awarded the CBE, the Knights Cross of the Order of the Falcon, and the Commanders Crossof Iceland.
Son of a miner, Gwyn Jones became a schoolteacher, then lecturer, then Professor of English from, He was a novelist and short story writer, translator of The Mabinogion and Icelandic sagas, founder and editor of The Welsh , He became Chairman of the Welsh Arts Council and was awarded the CBE, the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon, and the Commander's Crossof Iceland.
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