Knightly Legends of Wales; or, The Boy's Mabinogion

Knightly Legends of Wales; or, The Boy's Mabinogion - Being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of Hergest

In the library of Jesus College, Oxford, is an ancient Welsh MS. called Llyfr[1] Coch[2] O Hergest;[3] that is, The Red Book of Hergest. This MS. was written in the fourteenth century, though some of the compositions which it has collected are of a much earlier date. It contains a number of poems, together with a body of prose romances called Mabinogion.[4] In the year 1838 Lady Charlotte Guest published a translation of these Mabinogion, accompanied by the text of their Welsh originals and a mass of useful and scholarly notes. Her work bore this gracious dedication: Several considerations made me strongly desire to re-edit, upon the same plan with The Boy's Froissart and The Boy's King Arthur, the curious old products of Welsh fancy thus rendered available to scholars. The intrinsic charm of the stories themselves in the first place would easily have secured them a position in this series. Though not so rich as the Arabian Nights, they are more vigorous, and their fascination is of a more manful quality. Moreover, they are in comparison open-air tales, and do not move in that close, and, if one could think such a thing, gas-poisoned, temperature which often renders the atmosphere of the Eastern tales extremely unwholesome. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67425
Author: Lanier, Sidney
Release Date: Feb 17, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons,1884,copyright 1909,copyright 1912
Publication Date: 1884
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Fredericks, Alfred, -1926