Texts

Breudwyt Maxen Wledic ‘The dream of Macsen Wledig’

Middle Welsh
prose
Mabinogion

Title

Breudwyt Maxen Wledic

‘The dream of Macsen Wledig’

Also spelled Breuddwyd Macsen Wledig

First words (prose)

Maxen Wledic oed amherawdyr yn Ruuein, a theccaf gwr oed, a doethaf, a goreu a wedei yn amherawdyr or a vu kyn noc ef

Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 4 = Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, part 2 [c. 1350]

cols 178–191, 201–223

Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111 = Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest) [s. xiv-xv]

cols 697–844

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 16 3, ff. 25r-45v

f. 39b ff

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 1996B

pp. 1–22

Language

Middle Welsh

Date

“The consensus date for the writing of Breudwyt Maxen Wledic is the second half of the twelfth century (or 'late' twelfth century). However, if the author was motivated by particular circumstances or objectives, an appropriate context for the composition of this version of the tale would appear to be the events of 1215-17” (Roberts 2005: lxxxv).

Form

prose (primary)

Classification

MabinogionMabinogion
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Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] Roberts, Brynley F. [ed.], Breudwyt Maxen Wledic, Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series, 11, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.

[ed.] Williams, Ifor [ed.], Breuddwyd Maxen, Bangor: Jarvis & Foster, 1920.

[tr.] Davies, Sioned [tr.], The Mabinogion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

[tr.] Bollard, John K., Companion tales to the Mabinogi: legend and landscape of Wales, Llandysul: Gomer Press, 2007.

comments: English translation of four tales of the Mabinogion, with notes on the text.

[tr.] Jones, Gwyn, and Thomas Jones [tr.], The Mabinogion, 2nd ed., Everyman’s Library, 97, London: Dent, 1974.

71–79

[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], The Mabinogion, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.

Secondary sources (select)

Roberts, Brynley F., “Breuddwyd Maxen Wledig: Why? When?"”, in: Joseph Falaky Nagy, and Leslie Ellen Jones (eds), Heroic poets and poetic heroes in Celtic tradition: a Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford, 3, 4, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 303–314.

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