Mabinogion, Volume 1
Author: last_name: Anonymous
Language: English
Year: 1892

Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:<br /><br />On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of the black sheep would cross over, and become white; and when one of the black sheep bleated, one of the white sheep would cross over, and become black.<br /><br />Before passing on to the Mabinogion proper, Lady Charlotte Guest devotes Volume I of her compilation of medieval W