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====== Mabinogi Timeline (longer version) ======

^c. 1100^Tales put together by a single composer.|From oral performance tradition dating back an unknown period.|
^c. 1225|**MS. Peniarth 6**|Earliest surviving manuscript.Two pages of the Mabinogi survive (NLW)|
^c. 1350^MS. Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch|'The White Book of Rhydderch', earliest complete version of the Mabinogi. (NLW)|
^c. 1382-1405|**MS. Llyfr Gwyn Hergest**|'The Red Book of Hergest', complete version with all of //The Mabinogion//. (Oxford)|
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^1875^**William Owen Pughe publ. first printed tale**|First episode of //Pwyll//. Two more episodes of //Pwyll// to the disappearance of baby; also //Math//. Welsh & English.|
^1838-49^**Charlotte Guest publ. //The Mabinogion//**.|Welsh & English. All the Mabinogi except Welsh text //Pwyll// in Vol. 5, 1845.|
^1887-1907^John Gwenogvryn Evans publ. MSS. copies|'Diplomatic texts'. Also cataloguing of MSS.|
^1897-1901^Edward Anwyl, first major study|Four part series focusing the Mabinogi in its own right, ZCP journal.|
^1906|Everyman Library edition|Guest's English trans. making it much more widely known.|
^1930^PKM: Ifor Williams|Classic Welsh text, modernised typography clearer for students.|
^1933|Evangeline Walton, fantasy|Not the first. Later became well known 1970s|
^1948|Jones & Jones trans.|First popular trans. for a century since Guest. Everyman ed. 1949.|
^1953|WJG: William John Gruffydd //Rhiannon//|Major study. Reconstructing of the 'original myth', and domination by Irish traditions, no longer accepted.|
^1961|Kenneth Jackson, folklore|Motifs analysed from international tales, from Aarne & Thompson.|
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^1974^John Bollard, Literature, interweaving|Asserts the Mabinogi as coherent, and 'intricate' literature: social principles evident in interweaving of patterns. Trans. 2006|
^1975|'Rhiannon', Stevie Nicks|Song by international rock group Fleetwood Mac|
^1981, 1983|Moving Being, theatre|Major staging at Cardiff, Caernarvon castles. Robin Williamson music|
^1987, 2001|Alan Lee illustrations|1987 Jones & Jones version. 2001 Guest version|
^1986^Rob Valente, feminist|'Merched y Mabinogi' PhD. Mabinogi women, agency in voice. Obscured by goddess myths, and male perspectives.| 
^1989^Sioned Davies, storytelling formulas|//Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi//, English version 1993.|
^1991|BBC Ch. 4|Four episode series based on the Mabinogi|
^1996|Charles William Sullivan III, anthology|Collects main articles developing the Bollard approach.|
^1996|Valley Stream videos|DVD series, then online 2004|
^1999|First text online|Miss Gien http://www.missgien.net/arthurian/mabinogion/ 1906 Guest English text.|
^2002^'Otherworld, S4C|Cutting edge film mixing cartoon with live actors.|
^2002-03|Will Parker, trans. online|Also bibliographic essay, and articles.|
^2007^ Welsh Prose 1300 -1425|Cardiff U.MSS. text online. <http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk/en/|
^2007^Sioned Davies, trans.|Storytelling style, widely available. Paperback 2008. Many other works.|
^2012^**The Mabinogi Bibliography**|Shan Morgain, publ. online 2013. Further indexing.|
^2015, 2017|Storytelling conferences|Aberystwyth, Peter Stevenson, many storytellers, artists, a few Mabinogi scholars|
^2017|Sioned Davies, Symposium|Cardiff, international Mabinogi scholars, poetry|
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