• have debated whether the Welsh Romances are based on Chrétien's poems or if they derive from a shared original. The Romances survive in the White Book...
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    Peredur son of Efrawg (category Medieval Welsh literature)
    one of the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion. It tells a story roughly analogous to Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished romance Perceval,...
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  • Arthurian legend Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain, one of the three Welsh romances (Y Tair Rhamant) associated with the Mabinogion Aung San Suu Kyi...
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    Aue's Erec and Iwein, were based on Perceval, Erec, and Yvain; the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion (Peredur, son of Efrawg, Geraint and...
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    husband back into her castle. In the 13th-century Welsh tale of Owain, one of the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion, the corresponding...
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    Mabinogion (category Pages with Welsh IPA)
    whether the Welsh Romances are based on Chrétien's poems or if they derive from a shared original. Though it is arguable that the surviving Romances might derive...
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  • Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance is a 1996 collection of three novellas by Irvine Welsh. After suffering a stroke, Rebecca Navarro, a best-selling...
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    Erec and Enide (category Medieval French romances)
    the poem is one of the earliest known Arthurian romances in any language, predated only by the Welsh prose narrative Culhwch and Olwen. Approximately...
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  • chiefly appears in Geraint and Enid, one of the Three Welsh Romances of the Mabinogion. In the romance of Culhwch and Olwen he is the father of Gereint...
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    Geraint (category Medieval Welsh saints)
    protagonist in the Welsh tale Geraint and Enid, where he becomes the lover of Enid. Geraint and Enid is one of the three Welsh Romances associated with the...
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    Peniarth Manuscripts (category Welsh literature)
    of Rhydderch (containing the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the Three Welsh Romances and other tales) and a number of other ancient manuscripts, including...
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    Perceval, the Story of the Grail (category Medieval French romances)
    focuses on other aspects. Another version is the Welsh Peredur son of Efrawg, one of the Three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion, though in this...
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    said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 862,700 people (28.0%) aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in March 2024...
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    Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist and short story writer. His 1993 novel Trainspotting was made into a film of the same name...
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    King Arthur (category Articles containing Welsh-language text)
    tradition. Particularly significant in this development were the three Welsh Arthurian romances, which are closely similar to those of Chrétien, albeit with...
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    King Arthur's family (category Welsh mythology)
    Welsh (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1991), pp.98–116 at pp.112–3. Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae Book 8.1. Arthurian Romances...
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    Knights of the Round Table (category Articles containing Welsh-language text)
    Arthurian Romances: Garel of the Blooming Valley, Tandareis and Floribel, Meleranz. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-51508-8. Arthurian Romances trans. W. Kibler...
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    with the other Welsh romances, scholars still debate the work's exact relationship to Chrétien's poem. It is possible that this romance preserves some...
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    Mordred or Modred (/ˈmɔːrdrɛd/ or /ˈmoʊdrɛd/; Welsh: Medraut or Medrawt) is a major figure in the legend of King Arthur. The earliest known mention of...
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    Sir Kay (category Articles containing Welsh-language text)
    the same boorish role he takes in the continental romances. However, manuscripts for these romances date to well after Chrétien de Troyes, meaning that...
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    Battle of Camlann (category Articles containing Welsh-language text)
    The Battle of Camlann (Welsh: Gwaith Camlan or Brwydr Camlan) is the legendary final battle of King Arthur, in which Arthur either died or was fatally...
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  • Gaheris. In the early chronicles and romances based on or inspired by Geoffrey of Monmouth, as well as in the Welsh tradition, her figure and role is commonly...
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    Avalon (category Articles containing Welsh-language text)
    Arthurian Romances: Les aventures ou la queste del Saint Graal. La mort de roi Artus". p. 238. The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances Volume 6 at...
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    Excalibur (category Articles containing Welsh-language text)
    Prose Merlin, a part of the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail cycle of French romances also known as the Vulgate Cycle. Eventually, in the cycle's finale Vulgate...
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    Gawin" and knows the Arthurian romances including "Syr Gawain". "Turke and Sir Gawain". Database of Middle English Romance, The University of York. 2012...
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    pseudo-chronicle and chivalric romance works, written both in prose and verse, flourished from the 12th to the 16th century. The three "matters" were first described...
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    Caradoc (category Pages with Welsh IPA)
    appear in the French Arthurian prose romances and later works inspired by them. Caradoc stars in his own minor romance, the Life of Caradoc included in the...
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    Guinevere (category Articles containing Welsh-language text)
    Middle German romances by Hartmann von Aue and Ulrich von Zatzikhoven but was written Jenover by Der Pleier, and the audience of Italian romances got to know...
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    Caer Gai (category Articles containing Welsh-language text)
    Nobility (Welsh: Beirdd yr Uchelwyr). Other Medieval Welsh stories that mention the fort include Culhwch and Olwen and Three Welsh Romances. The first...
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    The Welsh Dragon (Welsh: y Ddraig Goch, meaning 'the red dragon'; pronounced [ə ˈðraiɡ ˈɡoːχ]) is a heraldic symbol that represents Wales and appears...
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