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Trioedd Ynys Prydein - The Triads of the Island of Britain (Paperback, 4th ed.)
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Trioedd Ynys Prydein - The Triads of the Island of Britain (Paperback, 4th ed.)
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Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has
long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This revised
edition shows the author's continued mastery of the subject,
including a new preface by Morfydd Owen, and will be essential
reading for Celticists and for those interested in early British
history and literature and in Arthurian studies. Early Welsh
literature shows a predilection for classifying names, facts and
precepts into triple groups, or triads. The Triads of the Isle of
Britain form a series of texts which commemorate the names of
traditional heroes and heroines, and which would have served as a
catalogue of the names of these heroic figures. The names are
grouped under various imprecise but complimentary epithets, which
are often paralleled in the esoteric language of the medieval
bards, who would have used the triads as an index of past history
and legend. This edition is based on a full collation of the most
important manuscripts, the earliest of which go back to the
thirteenth century. The Welsh text is accompanied by English
translations of each triad and extensive notes, and the volume
includes four appendices, which are also an important source of
personal names. The Introduction to the volume discusses the
significance of Trioedd Ynys Prydein in the history of Welsh
literature, and examines the traditional basis of the triads.
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