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| ====== The Mabinogion ====== | ====== The Mabinogion ====== | ||
| - | **//The Mabinogion//** is a loose collection of eleven or twelve prose stories originally written in mediaeval Welsh ([[Middle Welsh]]), widely available in translation.\\ | + | **//The Mabinogion//** is a loose collection of eleven or twelve prose stories originally written in mediaeval Welsh ([[Middle Welsh]]), often published together in translation.\\ |
| The name however is a mistake, going back about 700 years. | The name however is a mistake, going back about 700 years. | ||
| - | {{ ::mabinogion.png?400|MS. Llyfr Gwyn: from p. 33. NLW}}An important **part** of the collection is the set of four closely linked tales: [[The Mabinogi]] the central topic of this site. | + | {{ ::mabinogion.png?400|MS. Llyfr Gwyn: from p. 33. NLW}} **[[The Mabinogi]]** is the central topic of this site, a set of four closely linked tales. |
| - | So there is //The Mabinogion// (11 tales) and the Mabinogi (4 sets of tales).\\ | + | So there is the Mabinogi (4 linked tales) and //The Mabinogion// (11 varied tales).\\ |
| - | //The Mabinogion// ** always includes** the Mabinogi. | + | The Mabinogi is **always included** in the larger group //The Mabinogion//. |
| - | The Mabinogi's sections (its Branches) end by saying '**And so ends this //mabinogi//**.'\\ | + | The Mabinogi's sections (its Branches) end by saying '**And so ends this //mabinogi//**.'\\ |
| - | But one of them, the ending of the First Branch, says it as '//**mabynnogion**//' modernised as '//**mabinogion**//'. | + | One of them, the ending of the First Branch, says it as '//**mabynnogion**//' modernised as '//**mabinogion**//'. This is thought to be a simple mistake by the mediaeval writer. |
| From at least the 18thC onwards scholars often assumed this was a plural word because **-//on// or -//ion//** is a Welsh plural ending. So '//**mabinogion**//' was used as a **title** for this loose collection of eleven tales when published together. | From at least the 18thC onwards scholars often assumed this was a plural word because **-//on// or -//ion//** is a Welsh plural ending. So '//**mabinogion**//' was used as a **title** for this loose collection of eleven tales when published together. | ||
