The Boy's Mabinogion
The Boy's Mabinogion

Author: Sidney Lanier

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-02-16

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3368666940

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales

Author: Patrick K. Ford

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0520974662

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The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is a literary achievement of the highest order.

The Mabinogion
The Mabinogion

Author:

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0191517801

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Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever seen. Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history — these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of hanging a pregnant mouse and hunting a magical boar. Dragons, witches, and giants live alongside kings and heroes, and quests of honour, revenge, and love are set against the backdrop of a country struggling to retain its independence. Sioned Davies' lively translation recreates the storytelling world of medieval Wales and re-invests the tales with the power of performance.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright

Author: Jonathan Adams

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1786839148

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The story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he wanted them to be unaccountable – but they are not. This book reveals for the first time how his unbreakable self-belief and startling creative defiance both originated in the liberal religious and philosophical attitudes woven into his personality during his childhood – deliberately so by his mother and by his many aunts and uncles, to honour the fierce Welsh radicalism of their ancestors.