mabinogi

Example Sentences

• "I recollect a Mabinogi, or mythological tale, respecting this piece of water, which runs thus: - In ancient times a door in a rock near tins lake was found open upon a certain day every year."
• "So greatly do these Mabinogion differ in character, that they may be considered as forming two distinct classes; one of which generally celebrates heroes of the Arthurian cycle, while the other refers to persons and events of an earlier period, and it not difficult to assign each tale to one or other of these two classes[.]"
• "Since the publication of Lady Guest's handsome volumes, an idea prevails that any Welsh tale of respectable antiquity may be called a mabinogi, but there is no warrant for extending the use of the term to any but the 'four branches of the Mabinogi,' namely, Pwyll, Prince of Dyved; Branwen, daughter of Llyr; Manawyđan, son of Llyr; and Math, son of Mathonwy. For, strictly speaking, the word mabinog is a technical term belonging to the bardic system; and it means a literary apprentice. In other words, a mabinog was a young man who had not yet acquired the art of making verse, but one who received instruction from a qualified bard."
• "The Welsh Mabinogis of 'Pereduh," which relates the same incidents as these two poems, and in which the hero is certainly identical, knows no Grail, only a Dish with a Bleeding Head, and the Bleeding Lance, probably the original talisman of the story."
• "Indeed at one time it may have been an independent mabinogi rather than part of a 'branch' of a mabinogi."
• "Here the confusion is between the raid on Annwyn by Pryderi which, as I hope on a later occasion to show, is the basic myth of Branwen, and the deliverance of Gweir from Caer Siddi, but under all the confusion is the definite connexion of Gweir with the ‘tale of Pwyll and Pryderi’ which I take to represent a stage in the cyvarwyddyd on which the first and third Branches were founded; in short, Gweir is one of the protagonists of the mabinogi tradition, the saga of Pryderi."