Mabinogion, The

[ mab-uh-noh-gee-uhn ]

noun

1. a collection of medieval Welsh romances that were translated (1838–49) by Lady Charlotte Guest.

Example Sentences

In the ‘Mabinogion,’ the dragon which fights in Lludd’s dominion is mentioned as a plague, whose shriek sounded on every May eve over every hearth in Britain; and it ‘went through people’s hearts, and so scared them, that the men lost their hue and their strength, and the women their children, and the young men and maidens lost their senses.’

From Project Gutenberg

The Tale of Taliesin Alone of the tales in the collection called by Lady Charlotte Guest the “Mabinogion,” the story of the birth and adventures of the mythical bard Taliesin, the Amergin of Cymric legend, is not found in the fourteenth-century manuscript entitled “The Red Book of Hergest.”

From Project Gutenberg

Within its term were, without a doubt, carried to an approximate perfection those more native romances that we term 'Mabinogion,'—the most exquisite and exquisitely turned tales, in point of art, that the Celtic races have produced.

From Project Gutenberg

In the story of Kilhwch and Olwen, in the Mabinogion, the father of Olwen, before betrothing her to Kilhwch, declares that “her four great-grandmothers and her four great-grandsires are yet alive; it is needful that I take counsel of them.”133 and in feudal Normandy.

From Project Gutenberg

This volume contains the oldest of the Mabinogion—the p. 8four branches of the Mabinogion proper—and the kindred tale of Lludd and Llevelys. 

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