"How Culhwch Won Olwen"

[dolique]

talk from the trenches:
dolique: it's just all "blah blah blah his mother went insane and gave birth in a pigsty, therefore our hero is named Pigsty"
dolique: and "he knows a lot of courtiers' names which means the storyteller would have had to as well, which means the story functions as a repository for cyfarwyddyd which is a word for folklore with a lot of Ds

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[cerulean_sky]

I envy you and your Welsh studies-of-some-sort. Not that I don't intend to spend years studying those islands and their history and literature for Grad school, but still. ENVY.

P.S. Also, I miss you. We should chat sometime. I'm (sometimes) online as MillyFoxe. Or you could email me at sky@laloi.net. :D

[barefoottomboy]

the story functions as a repository for cyfarwyddyd which is a word for folklore with a lot of Ds in it

This reminds me of a "Visit Wales" tourism ad that showed on UK television a few years back: enjoy it here on YouTube!

(Also, good luck with paper-writing!)