Mabinogion
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Mabinogion
from Welsh mabinogi instruction for young bards
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Ms Bird will be performing in a Welsh-language show called Ffabinogion - a modern twist on some stories from the Mabinogion, a collection of Welsh myths and legends.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2023
But five years later, a fan sent her four paperback novels in a Manila envelope — author Evangeline Walton’s adaptation of the ancient British Mabinogion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2020
The Owl Service is set in Wales, and uses as its basis a story from the mediaeval Welsh epic, the Mabinogion.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2012
These manuscripts 21 contain also a remarkable body of fiction in the Mabinogion, or juvenile amusements, a collection of prose tales combining the marvellous and the imaginative.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
"Les Mabinogion," by Lot, Paris, 1889, 2 vols. 8vo, vol. i. p.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
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