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Historia Peredur ab Efrawg ‘The history of Peredur son of Efrawg’

  • Middle Welsh
  • prose
  • Mabinogion

Middle Welsh Arthurian prose tale. It is often described, along with Owein and Gereint, as one of the ‘three Welsh romances’ because of their (supposed) dependence on the three romances of Chrétien de Troyes, the Conte du Graal, Yvain and Erec et Enide. Of these three relationships, that between Peredur and the Conte du Graal may be the most contentious. Peredur also contains many episodes that are unique to it.

First words (prose)
  • Efrawc iarll bioed iarllaeth yn y Gogled, a seith meib oed idaw
Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Welsh
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
(Possible) sources: Perceval ou le conte du GraalPerceval ou le conte du Graal

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.

[dipl. ed.] Thomas, Peter Wynn [ed.], D. Mark Smith, and Diana Luft [transcribers and encoders], Welsh prose (Rhyddiaith Gymraeg) 1300–1425, Online: Cardiff University, 2007–present. URL: <http://www.rhyddiaithganoloesol.caerdydd.ac.uk>.
Transcriptions from Peniarth MSS 4, 7 and 14 and Jesus College MS 20.
[ed.] Goetinck, Glenys Witchard [ed.], Historia Peredur vab Efrawc, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976.
[ed.] Meyer, Kuno [ed.], Peredur ab Efrawc, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1887.
[tr.] Davies, Sioned [tr.], The Mabinogion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
[tr.] Jones, Gwyn, and Thomas Jones [tr.], The Mabinogion, 2nd ed., Everyman’s Library, 97, London: Dent, 1974.
164-202
[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], The Mabinogion, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.

Secondary sources (select)

Aronstein, Susan L., “Becoming Welsh: counter-colonialism and the negotiation of native identity in Peredur vab Efrawc”, Exemplaria 17 (2005): 135–168.
Bollard, John K., “Theme and meaning in Peredur”, Arthuriana 10:3 (2000): 73–92.  
abstract:
This article examines the episodic and thematic development of the Welsh Peredur, proposing the longer version of the Red and White Books is a unified tale concerned directly with such themes as courtesy, fame, and love.
Breeze, Andrew, “Peredur son of Efrawg and windmills”, Celtica 24 (2003): 58–64.
Foster, Idris Llewelyn, “Gereint, Owein, and Peredur”, in: Roger Sherman Loomis (ed.), Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages: a collaborative history, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. 192–205.
Goetinck, Glenys W., “Historia Peredur”, Llên Cymru 6 (1961): 138–153.
Goetinck, Glenys W., Peredur: a study of Welsh tradition in the Grail legends, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1975.
Goetinck, Glenys Witchard [ed.], Historia Peredur vab Efrawc, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1976.
Knight, Stephen, “Resemblance of menace: a post-colonial reading of Peredur”, in: Sioned Davies, and Peter Wynn Thomas (eds), Canhwyll Marchogyon: Cyd-Destunoli Peredur, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. 128–147.
Le Roux, Jean, and Joseph Loth, Le roman de Pérédur, Bibliothèque bretonne armoricaine, 5, Rennes: Plihon et Hommay, 1923.
Lovecy, Ian, “The Celtic sovereignty theme and the structure of Peredur”, Studia Celtica 12–13 (1978): 133–146.
Lovecy, Ian, “Historia Peredur ab Efrawg”, in: Rachel Bromwich, A. O. H. Jarman, and Brynley F. Roberts (eds), The Arthur of the Welsh. The Arthurian legend in medieval Welsh literature, 1, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1991. 171–182.
Mathon, Angelique (ed.), De Graal: Van Peredur tot Monty Python: een bundel opstellen over het Graalthema in de middeleeuwse en moderne literatuur, samengesteld door een werkgroep van Utrechtse letterenstudenten, Utrecht: Opleiding Literatuurwetenschap, 1999.
Meyer, Kuno [ed.], Peredur ab Efrawc, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1887.
Owen, Morfydd E., “‘Arbennic milwyr a blodeu marchogyon’: cymdeithas Peredur”, in: Sioned Davies, and Peter Wynn Thomas (eds), Canhwyll Marchogyon: Cyd-Destunoli Peredur, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. 92–112.
Roberts, Brynley F., “Peredur son of Efrawg: a text in transition”, Arthuriana 10:3 (Fall, 2000): 57–72.
Williams, Mary Rhionnan, Essai sur la composition du roman gallois de Peredur, Paris: Champion, 1909.
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