Culhwch ac Olwen: An Edition and Study of the Oldest Arthurian Tale - Hardcover

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9780708311271: Culhwch ac Olwen: An Edition and Study of the Oldest Arthurian Tale

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ISBN 10: 070831127X ISBN 13: 9780708311271

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 1992

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Culhwch and Olwen is one of the earliest tales contained in the so-called "Mabinogion" collection preserved in the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest. It is the earliest surviving tale in any language in which King Arthur and his warriors play a prominent role. In 1988, Rachel Bromwich and D. Simon Evans co-edited a Welsh-language edition of Culhwch and Olwen based on Sir Idris Foster's pioneering work on this story. Apart from a very few minor corrections, the text of the tale is exactly as printed in the Welsh edition, but this English edition provides an extended introduction, full notes on the language and subject matter of the text, and an enlarged glossary. Scholars and students alike are sure to welcome the publication of the first scholarly edition in English of this important tale. (from the dust jacket)

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About the Author

Rachel Bromwich is an Emeritus Reader in Celtic Languages and Literature of the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Professorial Fellow of St David’s University College, Lampeter. Her many publications include one of the most significant scholarly works of the last fifteen years, namely Trioedd Ynys Prydain:The Welsh Triads. She has also contributed a number of valuable studies of the Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwylim, including Dafydd ap Gwylim: A Selection of Poems, Aspects of the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwylim and the volume on the poet in the Writers of Wales series. While a student at Bangor she was a pupil of Sir Ifor Hughes and she later edited a collection of his studies in the volume The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry. In 1991 she co-edited with B.F. Roberts and A.O.H. Jarman the important book The Arthur of the Welsh.

D. Simon Evans is Honorary Director of the Centre for Research and Scholarship at St David’s University College, Lampeter. From 1974 to 1988 he was Professor of Welsh at the College and before that he taught at the University College, Dublin, Liverpool University and University College Swansea. He is a prominent scholar of medieval Welsh literature and his many important works include Gramadeg Cymraeg Canol, Buched Dewi, A Grammar of Middle Welsh, Doble’s Lives of the Welsh Saints, Historia Gruffud vab Kenan, The Life of St David and Medieval Religious Literature in the Writers of Wales series.