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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2008
Summary
‘I cannot be killed indoors,’ he said, ‘nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.’ ‘Well,’ she said, ‘how can you be killed?’
Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the ma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199218783 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199218781 |
| Author: | Sioned Davies |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 129mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
'It is plain that Professor Davies's translation...is not only properly attentive to the Welsh texts but makes for more comfortable reading than the earlier versions...Sioned Davies has done [the Mabinogion] and her modern readers proud.''Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Times, 24/02/2007‘Enchantment glows on every page”Independent on Sunday, 04.03.2007`‘This fresh, energetic translation is a revelation and, for the first time, shows off The Mabinogion tales as what they were originally: splendid entertainment.“Gwyneth Lewis, Guardian, 26/05/2007
Sioned Davies
Sioned Davies is Chair of Welsh at Cardiff University. Her special interest is the interplay between orality and literacy, together with the performance aspects of medieval Welsh narrative. Her publications include Crefft y Cyfarwydd (Cardiff, 1995), which is a study of narrative techniques in the Mabinogion, The Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Llandysul, 1993), and a co-edited volume, The Horse in Celtic Culture: Medieval Welsh Perspectives (Cardiff, 1997).
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