The Mabinogion Author:Gwyn Jones (Translator), Thomas Jones (Translator) This translation of the complete Mabinogion presents in modern English eleven Welsh stories that are among the finest flowerings of the Celtic genius and, taken together, a masterpiece of medival European literature. Preserved in, but much older than, two Welsh manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch (written between 1300 and 1325) and... more » the Red Book of Hergest (1375-1425), they are grouped as follows: the four branches of the Mabinogi, Pwyll, Branwen, Manawydan, and Math; fours independent native tales, The Dream of Macsen Wledig, Llud and Llefelys, Culhwch and Olwen, the earliest Arthurian tale in Welsh, and The Dream of Rhonabwy, a romantic and sometimes hurmorously appreciative looking-back to the heroic age of Britain; and three romances, The Lady of the Fountain, Peredur, and Gereint son of Erbin, later Arthurian stories with abundant evidence of Norman-French influences.« less