‘The Mabinogion’, translated by Sioned Davies (Review)

While I’ve been getting back to my Welsh roots (a grandparent on each side) over the past few years, completing the Duolingo course and regularly watching shows on the Welsh-language channel S4C, unfortunately, that hasn’t really spilled over into my reading. However, I’d had my eye on a certain book for a good while, finally taking the plunge a few months back, and I just found some time to give it a go last week. I suspect it wouldn’t be the first choice for most readers looking to read some Welsh fiction, but I’m always happy to dive into the distant past, so come with me as we take a trip to the Britain of myths and legends, with many a story to hear before our journey’s done ***** The Mabinogion is a collection of eleven adventurous tales, originally written in Welsh. Exact details are hard to come by, but the stories are thought to date from between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, albeit often set several centuries earlier. There have been several translations over the…