The Mabinogion Tetralogy

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The Mabinogion Tetralogy

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Has Anyone else read The Mabionogion Tetralogy by Evangeline Walton? She covers several stories of medieval Welsh Mythology.
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I own it and am familiar with Welsh mythology / four branches of the Mabinogi (Lady Charlotte Guest translations) but haven't read Evangeline Walton's novelisation as yet. It's on the to-do list.
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I was wondering how true to the stories it is.
Corbin, since you have a good familiarity with the four branches please let us know if she is translating in a good way. Wonder if it could be used as a reference type guide.
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Link to the Charlotte Guest translation.

https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/index.htm
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Well it's a novelisation, not a translation and from my knowledge of the author style 'humanizing historical and mythological subjects', it should be an interesting read... Perhaps during the coming holidays I will read it - I have to be in the right mood to read novels.

However I have found it pays never be stand-offish of pop-culture, modern or re-interpretations of myths and deities, but add them to the malange of images and ghosts of ideas in your imagination.

Thoughts take form and spirit; Stories, the framework, endure.

Or 'there are the echoes of primordial Celtic mythology and folklore'.
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Corbin wrote:However I have found it pays never be stand-offish of pop-culture, modern or re-interpretations of myths and deities, but add them to the malange of images and ghosts of ideas in your imagination.Thoughts take form and spirit; Stories, the framework, endure.
Good point.
I have a friend that calls to He-Man as her pop God, so much so she had the image tattooed on .
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Corbin wrote:Link to the Charlotte Guest translation.

https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mab/index.htm
Thanks for the link.

If you get a chance, tell me what you think of the Evangeine Walton version. I would be very interested to get another opinion. I have finished it yet (it was much larger than I anticipated. I ordered it online).
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