The Four Branches of the Mabinogi or Pedair Cainc Y Mabinogi are the earliest prose stories in the literature of Britain. Originally written in Wales in...
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Mabinogion (redirect from Mabinogi)
Since the 1970s, an investigation of the common plot structures, characterisation, and language styles, especially in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, has...
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Welsh mythology (redirect from The Dream of Macsen Wledig)
academic scholars. Four of the mythological stories contained in the Mabinogion are collectively known as the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. They concentrate...
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Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed (redirect from First Branch of the Mabinogi)
"Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed," is a legendary tale from medieval Welsh literature and the first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. It tells of the friendship...
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in West Wales to the setting of the tales of Welsh mythology known as the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (Welsh: Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi, often referred...
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appearing prominently in the tale of Branwen ferch Llŷr, the second branch of the Mabinogi. Described by Will Parker as "a study in the psychopathic personality"...
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Annwn (section Whereabouts of Annwn)
Caer Rigor ("Fortress of Hardness") Annwn plays a reasonably prominent role in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, a set of four interlinked mythological...
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Math fab Mathonwy (redirect from Math son of Mathonwy)
Math is the fourth of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Math's nephew Gilfaethwy had become obsessed with Goewin, Math's footholder. The magician Gwydion...
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Manawydan fab Llŷr (redirect from Third Branch of the Mabinogi)
the son of Llŷr" is a legendary tale from medieval Welsh literature and the third of the four branches of the Mabinogi. It is a direct sequel to the second...
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Mabinogi may refer to: The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, a group of interrelated medieval Welsh prose tales Mabinogi (video game), a Korean video game...
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in several of the Welsh Triads, but his most significant role is in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, Branwen ferch Llŷr. He is a son of Llŷr and Penarddun...
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Blodeuwedd (redirect from Tale of Blodeuwedd)
a central figure in Math fab Mathonwy, the last of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes has been placed under a tynged ("doom")...
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small but crucial role in the Math fab Mathonwy, one of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. At the beginning of the tale, the eponymous Math fab Mathonwy...
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Clud, is initially mentioned in the first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, when Rhiannon tells Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, who wishes to marry her, that...
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Pwyll (category S-bef: 'before' parameter includes the word 'unknown')
Pendefig Dyfed, the first branch of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, and also appears briefly as a member of Arthur's court in the medieval tale Culhwch...
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Gwern (section The Battle of the Trees)
Gwern's role in Branwen and in the bardic tradition relating to the Battle of the Trees. The Battle of the Trees Parker, Will. Four Branches of the Mabinogi...
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Pryderi (category S-aft: 'after' parameter includes the word 'unknown')
the son of Pwyll and Rhiannon, and king of Dyfed after his father's death. He is the only character to appear in all Four Branches of the Mabinogi, although...
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first of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, but also features briefly in the early tale on the Matter of Britain, Culhwch and Olwen, as a knight of King Arthur...
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Branwen ferch Llŷr (redirect from Branwen Daughter of Llyr)
daughter of Llŷr" is a legendary tale from medieval Welsh literature and the second of the four branches of the Mabinogi. It concerns the children of Llŷr;...
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Manawydan (section The Mabinogi)
and Third Branches of the Mabinogi (the latter of which is named for him), but he is also referenced frequently in medieval poetry and the Welsh Triads...
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"Math, the son of Mathonwy" is a legendary tale from medieval Welsh literature and the final of the four branches of the Mabinogi. It tells of a vicious...
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Ceridwen (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
the same author in his The Mabinogi and other Medieval Welsh Tales (University of California Press, 1977) Ronald Hutton, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient...
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hero of Welsh mythology. He appears most prominently in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, the tale of Math fab Mathonwy, which tells the tale of his birth...
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Second Branch of the Mabinogi, in which it is used by Caswallawn to assassinate the seven stewards left behind by Brân the Blessed and usurp the throne. In...
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most important role in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi. She is the daughter of Dôn and the sister of Gwydion and Gilfaethwy; the Welsh Triads give her...
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Rhiannon (section Y Mabinogi: First Branch)
mythology, appearing in the First Branch of the Mabinogi, and again in the Third Branch. Ronald Hutton called her "one of the great female personalities...
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Witches Cauldron (disambiguation) The Children of Llyr Four Branches of the Mabinogi#Second Branch: Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr Cast-iron cookware, including...
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by Arianrhod on her son Lleu Llaw Gyffes in the fourth of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the Mabinogi of Math fab Mathonwy, in which his mother doomed...
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Grassholm (category Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reserves in Wales)
island in the medieval Welsh story Branwen ferch Llŷr (Branwen the daughter of Llŷr), one of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Gwales is the site of a fabulous...
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in Branwen ferch Llŷr (see also Llŷr), the second of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Newstead wrote: "The evidence concerning Ban, though it survives...
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