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| **THIS WEBSITE is mainly about the Mabinogi**, also known as **//Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi//**, 'the Four Branches of the Mabinogi'. The site does extend to the other stories of //The Mabinogion// but in less depth. | **THIS WEBSITE is mainly about the Mabinogi**, also known as **//Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi//**, 'the Four Branches of the Mabinogi'. The site does extend to the other stories of //The Mabinogion// but in less depth. | ||
| - | **THE MABINOGION?** Many people know the title ‘ //[[mabinogion|//The Mabinogion//]]//.’ This is a loose collection of eleven (or twelve) tales taken from the manuscripts described above. //The Mabinogion// contains the Mabinogi as four of its eleven parts.\\ | + | **THE MABINOGION?** Many people know the title ‘//[[mabinogion|The Mabinogion]]//'. This is a loose collection of eleven (or twelve) tales. //The Mabinogion// contains the Mabinogi as four of its eleven parts.\\ |
| But the ‘//Mabinogion//‘ as a name for the larger collection is an old mistake made in a mediaeval manuscript, a single ‘typo.’. Recently [[s:bollard| John K. Bollard]] has challenged the idea that the Mabinogion collection even makes sense as a collection. He says that apart from the unified Mabinogi, the other tales are too different, their apparent unity deriving from survival in the same manuscript.(([[s:bollard| John K. Bollard]], 'What is The Mabinogi? What is "The Mabinogion"?' (2007) <https://sites.google.com/site/themabinogi/mabinogiandmabinogion> )) | But the ‘//Mabinogion//‘ as a name for the larger collection is an old mistake made in a mediaeval manuscript, a single ‘typo.’. Recently [[s:bollard| John K. Bollard]] has challenged the idea that the Mabinogion collection even makes sense as a collection. He says that apart from the unified Mabinogi, the other tales are too different, their apparent unity deriving from survival in the same manuscript.(([[s:bollard| John K. Bollard]], 'What is The Mabinogi? What is "The Mabinogion"?' (2007) <https://sites.google.com/site/themabinogi/mabinogiandmabinogion> )) | ||
