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  • How Culhwch Won Olwen
    Liam Guilar
    Culhwch and Olwen (Culhwch ac Olwen) is a prose tale, written in medieval Welsh, which survives in two manuscripts from the 14th century. The story, in its current version, probably dates from the 11th, though some parts may be much older. It is one of the eleven stories collected in The Mabinogion. When Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones translated the collection, they placed Culhwch...
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  • The Fabled Third
    Liam Guilar
    'The Fabled Third is the final instalment in the sequence that began with A Presentment of Englishry. It continues to follow Laȝamon’s 12th century version of the legendary history of Britain up to the death of Uther, ending as the story begins to overlap with Sir Thomas Malory’s later, better known tale of King Arthur. When Laȝamon’s Uther arrives at Tintagel, he doesn’t enter...
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  • A Man of Heart
    Liam Guilar
    'A Man of Heart, the second part of A Presentment of Englishry, is the story of Vortigern and the end of Roman Britain. It is also a story about story-telling. It continues to follow the narrative trajectory of Laȝamon’s late 12th-century version of The Legendary History, the foundation myth of Britain. By the 12th century this had very little in common with ’History’ as we und...
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  • A Presentment of Englishry
    Liam Guilar
    ‘Are you English?’ is never a neutral question. In the 11th century a ‘Presentment of Englishry’ was the offering of proof that a dead man was English and therefore unimportant. In the 12th century Laȝamon, a priest living in the small settlement of Areley Regis by the River Severn, set out to ‘tell the noble deeds of the English, who they were, and where they came from.’ No on...
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  • Rough Spun to Close Weave
    Liam Guilar
    Firmly rooted in the past, these poems branch out from Old English and traditional ballads to the language of televised archeology and the travel guide, twisting from folk song to fairy tale to café gossip. In a tangled conversation between past and present, the voices of Vikings, poets, lovers, talking skulls, shipwrecked sailors, house painters, disgruntled middle managers, m...
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    12,93 €