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Thomson,
Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet
(Dublin, 1957).
——
Owein or Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn
(Dublin, 1968).
——
Ystorya Gereint Uab Erbin
(Dublin, 1997).
Ifor Williams,
Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi
(Cardiff, 1930).*
Translations
     
T. P. Ellis and John Lloyd,
The Mabinogion: A New Translation
(Oxford, 1929).
Patrick K. Ford,
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
(Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1977).
Jeffrey Gantz,
The Mabinogion
(Harmondsworth, 1976).
Lady Charlotte Guest,
The Mabinogion from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest, and other Ancient Welsh manuscripts
(London, 1836–49).
Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones,
The Mabinogion
(London, 1948).
Critical Studies
     
Rachel Bromwich, A. O. H. Jarman, and Brynley F. Roberts (eds.),
The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature
(Cardiff, 1991).
Sioned Davies,
The Four Branches of the Mabinogi
(Llandysul, 1993).
——
Crefft y Cyfarwydd: Astudiaeth o dechnegau naratif yn Y Mabinogion
(Cardiff, 1995).
—— and Peter Wynn Thomas (eds.),
Canhwyll Marchogyon: Cyd-destunoli Peredur
(Cardiff, 2000).
Glenys Goetinck,
Peredur: A Study of Welsh Tradition in the Grail Legends
(Cardiff, 1975).
W. J. Gruffydd,
Rhiannon: An Inquiry into the First and Third Branches of the Mabinogi
(Cardiff, 1953).
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (ed.),
Arthurian Literature XXI: Celtic Arthurian Material
(Cambridge, 2004).
Proinsias Mac Cana,
The Mabinogi
(Cardiff, 1977; revised edn. 1992).
O. J. Padel,
Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature
(Cardiff, 2000).
Brynley F. Roberts,
Studies on Middle Welsh Literature
(Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter, 1992).
C. W. Sullivan III (ed.),
The Mabinogi: A Book of Essays
(New York and London, 1996).
Cultural and Social Background
     
Rachel Bromwich (ed. and trans.),
Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain
(Cardiff, 1961; revised edn. 2006).
R. R. Davies,
Conquest, Coexistence and Change: Wales 1063–1415
(Oxford, 1987).
Sioned Davies and Nerys Ann Jones (eds.),
The Horse in Celtic Culture
:
Medieval Welsh Perspectives
(Cardiff, 1997).
Miranda Green,
The Gods of the Celts
(Gloucester, 1986).
Daniel Huws,
Medieval Welsh Manuscripts
(Cardiff, 2000).
Dafydd Jenkins (ed. and trans.),
The Law of Hywel Dda
(Llandysul, 1986).
—— and Morfydd E. Owen (eds.),
The Welsh Law of Women
(Cardiff, 1980).
Proinsias Mac Cana,
Celtic Mythology
(London, 1968; revised edn. 1983).
Huw Pryce (ed.),
Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies
(Cambridge, 1998).
Anne Ross,
Pagan Celtic Britain
(London, 1967).
Lewis Thorpe (trans.),
Geoffrey of Monmouth: The History of the Kings of Britain
(Harmondsworth, 1966).
Further Reading in Oxford World’s Classics
     
Eirik the Red
, ed. Gwyn Jones.
Wolfram von Eschenbach,
Parzival
, trans. Cyril Edwards, introduction by Richard Barber.
Elias Lönnrot,
The Kalevala
, trans. Keith Bosley.
Thomas Malory,
Le Morte Darthur
, trans. Helen Cooper.
The Poetic Edda
, ed. Caroline Larrington.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
, ed. Keith Harrison and Helen Cooper.
Tales of the Elders of Ireland
, ed. Ann Dooley and Harry Roe.

 
    The Wales of the
Mabinogion
     

THE
MABINOGION
     

The First Branch of the Mabinogi
     

     
    P WYLL , prince of Dyfed, was lord over the seven cantrefs of Dyfed. * Once upon a time he was at Arberth, one of his chief courts, and it came into his head and his heart to go hunting. The part of his realm he wanted to hunt was Glyn Cuch. * He set out that night from Arberth, and came as far as Pen Llwyn Diarwya, and stayed there that night. And early the next day he got up, and came to Glyn Cuch to unleash his dogs in the forest. And he blew his horn, and began to muster the hunt, and went off after the dogs, and became separated from his companions. And as he was listening for the cry of his pack, he heard the cry of another pack, but these had a different cry, and they were coming towards his own pack. And he could see a clearing in the forest, a level field; and as his own pack was reaching the edge of the