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The Four Branches of the Mabinogi or Pedair Cainc Y Mabinogi are the earliest prose stories in the literature of Britain. Originally written in Wales in Middle Welsh, but widely available in translations, the Mabinogi is generally agreed to be a single work in four parts, or "branches." The interrelated tales can be read as mythology, political themes, romances, or magical fantasies. They appeal to a wide range of readers, from young children to the most sophisticated adult. The tales are popular today in book format, as storytelling or theatre performances; they appear in recordings and on film, and continue to inspire many reinterpretations in artwork and modern fiction.

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Four Branches of the Mabinogi

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The Four Branches of the Mabinogi or Pedair Cainc Y Mabinogi are the earliest prose stories in the literature of Britain. Originally written in Wales in...

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Mabinogion

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versions. The highly sophisticated complexity of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi defies categorisation. The stories are so diverse that it has been argued...

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Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed

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"Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed," is a legendary tale from medieval Welsh literature and the first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. It tells of the friendship...

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Welsh mythology

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of the mythological stories contained in the Mabinogion are collectively known as the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. They concentrate largely on the exploits...

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Math fab Mathonwy

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Math is the fourth of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Math's nephew Gilfaethwy had become obsessed with Goewin, Math's footholder. The magician Gwydion...

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Y Mabinogi

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in West Wales to the setting of the tales of Welsh mythology known as the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Welsh: Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi, often referred...

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Blodeuwedd

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Gwydion, and is a central figure in Math fab Mathonwy, the last of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes has been placed under a tynged...

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Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd

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leader of Deheubarth, The Lord Rhys. Dr Andrew Breeze has argued that Gwenllian could have been the author of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Davies...

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Pwyll

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Pendefig Dyfed, the first branch of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, and also appears briefly as a member of Arthur's court in the medieval tale Culhwch...

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Goewin

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small but crucial role in the Math fab Mathonwy, one of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. At the beginning of the tale, the eponymous Math fab Mathonwy...

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Efnysien

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appearing prominently in the tale of Branwen ferch Llŷr, the second branch of the Mabinogi. Described by Will Parker as "a study in the psychopathic personality"...

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Pryderi

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the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon, and king of Dyfed after his father's death. He is the only character to appear in all Four Branches of the Mabinogi, although...

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Tynged

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by Arianrhod on her son Lleu Llaw Gyffes in the fourth of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the Mabinogi of Math fab Mathonwy, in which his mother doomed...

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Corbenic

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in the maimed King Brân the Blessed, whose story is told in Branwen ferch Llŷr, second of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Locations associated with...

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Teyrnon

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first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, but also features briefly in the early tale on the Matter of Britain, Culhwch and Olwen, as a knight of King Arthur...

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Annwn

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in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, a set of four interlinked mythological tales dating from the early medieval period. In the First Branch of the Mabinogi...

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Gwawl

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Clud, is initially mentioned in the first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, when Rhiannon tells Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, who wishes to marry her, that...

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Andrew Breeze

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on the philology of many Celtic languages, he is the author of Medieval Welsh Literature (1997) and The Origins of the "Four Branches of the Mabinogi" (2009)...

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King Ban

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in Branwen ferch Llŷr (see also Llŷr), the second of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Newstead wrote: "The evidence concerning Ban, though it survives...

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White horses in mythology

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Archaeology.about.com. Retrieved 29 April 2010. The Four Branches of the Mabinogi: The Mabinogi of Pwyll by Will Parker (Bardic Press: 2007) ISBN 978-0-9745667-5-7...

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Celtic mythology

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written down. Important reflexes of British mythology appear in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, especially in the names of several characters, such as Rhiannon...

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Rhiannon

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mythology, appearing in the First Branch of the Mabinogi, and again in the Third Branch. Ronald Hutton called her "one of the great female personalities...

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The Black Cauldron

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Witches Cauldron (disambiguation) The Children of Llyr Four Branches of the Mabinogi#Second Branch: Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr Cast-iron cookware, including...

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Gwern

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Gwern's role in Branwen and in the bardic tradition relating to the Battle of the Trees. The Battle of the Trees Parker, Will. Four Branches of the Mabinogi...

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Percival

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mythological figure in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, a derivation that Groos and Lacy find "now seems even less likely". In all of his appearances, Chrétien...

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