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23 June 2016

Review : THE MABINOGION trans.by Lady Charlotte Guest

This is Wales' national epic, a set of legends that bind the people together. It's basically Welsh mythology, though apparently strongly influenced by Continental medieval romances.

The problem is the translation. Victorian translators tended toward deliberate archaism, and Guest seems to have been worse then most. I don't recommend this just because it's so hard to read.

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