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Illustrations by Alan Lee for The Mabinogion

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2023-06-28

“Branwen”
©️Bridget & John Original2023

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1) Branwen’s story is the most tragic story in all of the Mabinogion.
She is the Welsh /Irish Goddess of Spring, love and beauty.

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2023-03-27

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& here's a piece about the of
'A Year & a Day: My Top 5 Characters from the Mabinogion'

https://t.co/CB5gGQj9Yh

: a Cŵn Annwn (of the Hounds of Arawn) by Zel Cariad

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2023-03-01


Siblings (1 of the 3 most beautiful maids in Britain), (so ugly nobody would wound him in battle in case he was the devil) & the great bard were the varied offspring of sorceress Ceridwen & giant Tegid Foel.

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2023-02-21

THE OWL SERVICE was born when Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers. It draws on the MABINOGION; Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl

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2022-11-21

Illustrations for The Mabinogion by Alan Lee

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2022-10-26

Alan Lee's illustrations for the Mabinogion

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2022-10-16


I would like to be Luned in the tale of Owain & the Lady of the Fountain .... she gets to help Owain defeat the Black Knight & then play matchmaker between him and the Lady who rules the kingdom ❤️😀
[#Yvain]

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2022-09-13

A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980.

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2022-08-27


In Arthurian Literature the friendship of Arthurian knights & (#Cei) can be interpreted many ways .... but they have a very close, intense friendship, their exploits bind them together and their loyalty to one another is lifelong ...

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2022-06-27

In the MABINOGION Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl. When Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers (pic 3) The Owl Service 1960 was born S.Bechtold

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2022-06-19

Illustrations by Alan Lee for The Mabinogion

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2022-04-29

These dragons are based on the dragons in The Mabinogion - a collection of Welsh mythology. The red dragon represents the Welsh and the white - the Saxon invaders. The red vanquishes the white and that’s how the Welsh flag came to feature the red dragon!

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2022-03-21

A Year and a Day – My Top 5 Characters from the Mabinogion is now archived at

"It’s a hard choice, as most of them are deeply flawed..."

https://t.co/CB5gGQj9Yh

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2022-03-10

Playing Elden Ring feels like being in one of Alan Lee's illustrations for the Mabinogion

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2022-03-10

Today I'm drafting my next newsletter! My hope is to release on Sunday so I can set up a regular every 2nd Sunday schedule 😊

This month I'll be talking about my fave bits of Welsh mythology in the Mabinogion so if you want to hear that weirdness:

https://t.co/UIpYGzrDzb 👀

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2022-03-07