Mabinogion

Mabinogion is the title which is given to eleven prose stories which collated from the Welsh medieval manuscripts. The tales are from a pre christian mythology, but some of the tales date back from the Iron age. Every one of the tales is a product  of highly developed Welsh medieval tradition both oral an also written. 

Lady Charlotte Guest was the first to publish translations of the Welsh collections and also popularising the word Mabinogion in the 19th century. 

The collections of stories consist the vast part of prose in the Welsh medieval manuscripts, which is not translated from any other language. The eleven stories are the main early manuscript sources of the White book of Rhydderch and also the Red book of Hergest. 

Four branches of Mabinogion are the most mythological tales in the Mabinogion collection.
Rhonabwy is the most literary of the Welsh medieval prose tales, it was also the last one to be written.


In Lady Charlotte Guest complications are 5 totalled tales from the Welsh Legend.

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There are three romance tales from the collection are Welsh versions of tales that appear in the work of Chretien De Troyes. Theres are doubts whether that the Welsh romances tales are based on Chretien's poems.