The Mabinogion is a collection of the earliest Welsh prose stories, compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. There are two main source manuscripts, created c.
Ceridwen by Christopher Williams (1910)
The opening few lines of the Mabinogi, from the Red Book of Hergest, scanned by the Bodleian Library
The Panel of the Mabinogi (watercolour and gouache on silk) by George Sheringham (1884–1937)
The Two Kings (sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones, 1984) near Harlech Castle, Wales. Bendigeidfran carries the body of his nephew Gwern.
Culhwch and Olwen is a medieval Welsh tale in which Culhwch, aided by his cousin King Arthur and his warriors, seeks to marry Olwen, daughter of the giant Ysbaddaden Pencawr. It survives in only two m
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…humour. Strictly speaking, the Four Branches of the Mabinogi are the main sequence of related tales, but seven others include a classic hero quest, "Culhwch and Olwen"; a historic legend, complete with glimpses of a far off age, in "Lludd and Llefelys"; and other tales portraying a very different King Arthur from the…
The opening lines of Culhwch and Olwen, from the Red Book of Hergest Kilydd mab Kelydon Wledig a fynnei wraig kyn mwyt ac ef. Sef gwraig a vynna oedd Goleudyd merch Anlawd Wledig.
Culhwch at Ysbaddaden's court. An illustration by E. Wallcousins in Celtic Myth & Legend, Charles Squire, 1920 "Horses shall I have, and chivalry; and my Lord and kinsman Arthur will obtain for me all these things. And I shall gain thy daughter, and thou shalt lose thy life." "Go forward...and when thou hast compassed all these marvels, thou shalt have my daughter for thy wife."
Questioning the Ouzel of Cilgwri in Culhwch and Olwen by Shirley Jones (2016)