Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts by Elis Gruffydd

Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts by Elis Gruffydd

The original Welsh stories of these beloved characters and their world for the first time in English
 
The stories in Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts deal with well-known figures from medieval Britain who will be familiar to many readers—though not from the versions presented here. These freshly translated tales emerge from the remarkable and enormous sixteenth-century Chronicle of the Six Ages of the World by the Welshman Elis Gruffydd.
 
Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts revives the original legends of these Welsh heroes alongside stories of the continued survival of the magical arts, from antiquity to the Renaissance, and the broader cultural world of the Welsh. These stories provide a vivid and faithful rendering of Merlin, Arthur, and the many original folktales left out of the widespread accounts of their exploits.

"For anyone interested in unique stories of historical myth, this book is worth it for the introduction alone. . . Fantastic work has been done to bring this astounding historical epic to a wider twenty-first-century audience." * Buzz Magazine *

Patrick K. Ford is Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor Emeritus of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
 
Jerry Hunter is Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies at Bangor University in Wales.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780520390256
ISBN 10	0520390253
Title	Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts
Author	Elis Gruffydd
Series	World Literature In Translation
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of California Press
Year published	2023-02-21
Number of pages	176
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