num_pages: 335
description: Destiny, magic and chance, human strengths and weaknesses--The Mabinogion's stories are amongst the most compelling and beautiful in European literature.Composed in a golden age of Celtic story-telling in the eleventh century or earlier, they bring together the grotesque and the warmly human, the entertaining and the richly significant. Culhwch is here, perilously wooing the Giant's Daughter; Owain is here, winning the Lady of the Fountain by knightly feats of arms; and--a portent and a miracle both--King Arthur is here for the first time as a prime mover in a significant prose narrative ('Culhwch and Olwen'), and thereafter as King and Emperor of what is still the world's most famous royal court.
language: English
title: The Mabinogion
titlecomplete: The Mabinogion
characters: Pryderi, Rhiannon, Culhwch, Olwen, Gwydion fab Dôn, Osla Big Knife, Efnisien, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, Brân, Blodeuwedd, Pwyll, Gwern, Matholwch, Arianrhod, Aranrhod, Bendigeidfran, King Arthur, Math, Ysbaddaden Pencawr, Gronw Pebyr, Brânwen
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Short Stories, Arthurian, Folklore, Literature, Poetry, Mythology, Fiction, Medieval
ratings_count: 7596
places: Wales, Britain
publisher: Everyman