Wind off the Welsh hills still seems to carry voices of kings, seers, and shapeshifters. The old Welsh stories live. In The Text of the Mabinogion: And Other Welsh Tales from the Red Book of Hergest, the legendary cycle of medieval Welsh tales emerges in all its strangeness and beauty, where the boundaries between everyday life and the Otherworld blur, and the ideals of magic and chivalry are tested in dreamlike courts and shadowed battlefields.
Edited by renowned Celtic scholars John Rhys and John Gwenogvryn Evans, this authoritative version of the complete Mabinogion text sits at the heart of any serious Celtic mythology collection or Arthurian legend anthology. Drawing directly on the fourteenth-century Red Book of Hergest, it preserves core Welsh mythological stories and Celtic hero legends that underlie much later British and European romance, offering an unparalleled window into medieval Wales literature, belief, and imagination.
Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Indispensable for mythology students and for folklore researchers, it also rewards curious readers drawn to ancient narrative art, and belongs in every Celtic classics library devoted to the deep roots of Arthurian and Celtic tradition.