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The Boy's Mabinogion: Being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of Hergest (Classic Reprint)
The Boy's Mabinogion Being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of Hergest - Classic Reprint Author:Sidney Lanier Excerpt from 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 Coch O Hergest; that is. The Red Book of Hergest. This MS. was written in the fourteenth century, though some of the compositions which it has collected ... more »are of a much earlier date. It contains a number of poems, together with a body of prose romances called Mabinogion.
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.
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