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| Some might like a video to bring the tales alive, others would want to read either in a book or on a website. Yet others prefer to close the eyes and listen. Or perhaps it depends on your mood. Below is a choice list to find what suits you best. | Some might like a video to bring the tales alive, others would want to read either in a book or on a website. Yet others prefer to close the eyes and listen. Or perhaps it depends on your mood. Below is a choice list to find what suits you best. | ||
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| You can read the original text online; see end of this page. | You can read the original text online; see end of this page. | ||
| - | **If you only want to buy one book** you you could choose one of two recent classics.\\ | + | **If you only want to buy one book in English** you could choose one of two recent classics.\\ |
| - | **[[s:sdavies|Sioned Davies']]** ttranslation: //The Mabinogion// (2007). A handy small sized book with useful notes, and a clear, friendly, storytelling style. This book has all the other stories of [[mabinogion|The Mabinogion]] as well as [[The Mabinogi]].\\ | + | **[[s:sdavies|Sioned Davies']]** ttranslation: //The Mabinogion// (2007). A handy small sized book with useful notes, and a clear, friendly, storytelling style. This book has all the stories of [[mabinogion|The Mabinogion]] including [[The Mabinogi]].\\ |
| **[[s:bollard|John Bollard's]]** translation: //Legend and Landscape of Wales: The Mabinogi// (2006). A gorgeous book in friendly style, packed with magical photographs of the actual sites where the events happened by Anthony Griffiths. The other mediaeval Welsh stories are available in separate volumes. | **[[s:bollard|John Bollard's]]** translation: //Legend and Landscape of Wales: The Mabinogi// (2006). A gorgeous book in friendly style, packed with magical photographs of the actual sites where the events happened by Anthony Griffiths. The other mediaeval Welsh stories are available in separate volumes. | ||
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| If you prefer to read on paper you can copy and paste the four (longish) pages. Lots of useful notes if you want to explore further, and based on reputable sources. Will Parker also has lots of thoughtful articles as intermediate studies. | If you prefer to read on paper you can copy and paste the four (longish) pages. Lots of useful notes if you want to explore further, and based on reputable sources. Will Parker also has lots of thoughtful articles as intermediate studies. | ||
| - | **The pioneering publisher and translator** who made the Mabinogi available to us in the modern world, was [[s:guest|Charlotte Guest]]. Check out her extraordinary life here, and pay a courtesy visit to her book which is freely available online. | + | ** Cymraeg / Welsh** try a simplified version //Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi// by Alun Ifans (2003).\\ |
| - | www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/index.htm Lovely Victorian illustrations by [[arts:Samuel Williams]] the foremost engraver of the period. | + | For the full version //The Mabinogion: Diweddariad// Alun & Rhiannon Ifans, long preface by the esteemed Brynley Roberts (2001).\\ |
| + | The classic version used as reference by students is 'PKM' //Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi// by Ifor Williams in many editions back to 1930. | ||
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| + | **The pioneering publisher and translator** who made the Mabinogi available to us in the modern world, was [[s:guest|Charlotte Guest]]. Check out her extraordinary life [[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/index.htm|here]], and pay a courtesy visit to her book which is freely available online. Lovely Victorian illustrations by [[arts:Samuel Williams]] the foremost engraver of the period. | ||
