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Owein, or Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn ‘Owein, or The story of the Lady of the Fountain’

  • Middle Welsh
  • prose
  • Mabinogion

Anonymous Middle Welsh tale on the adventures of Owein, a knight at Arthur’s court. It is closely related to, and possibly adapted from, the French version by Chrétien de Troyes, <i>Yvain, ou le Chevalier au Lion</i>.

Title
Owein, or Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn
‘Owein, or The story of the Lady of the Fountain’

Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn (‘The story of the Lady of the Fountain’) or simply Owein.

First words (prose)
  • Yr amherawdyr Arthur oed yg Kaer Llion ar Wysc
Manuscripts
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 4 = Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, part 2 [c. 1350]
cols 223–261
Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111 = Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest) [s. xiv-xv]
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 148 [s. xviiex]
Oxford, Jesus College, MS 20 [s. xv1]
ff. 16r–21v
Fragment.
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 120 [s. xviiiex]
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 58
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 171
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 2034B
Olim Panton MS 68.
Language
  • Middle Welsh

  • Middle Welsh

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.] Thomson, Robert L. [ed.], Owein, or Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn, Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series, 4, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1968.
[tr.] Bollard, John K., Tales of Arthur: legend and landscape of Wales, Llandysul: Gomer Press, 2010.  
comments: English translation of three Arthurian romances of the Mabinogion, with notes on the texts.
[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.
139–163
[tr.] Gantz, Jeffrey [tr.], The Mabinogion, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.

Secondary sources (select)

Fulton, Helen, “Individual and society in Owein/Yvain and Gereint/Erec”, in: Joseph Falaky Nagy (ed.), The individual in Celtic literatures, 1, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 15–50.
Thomson, R. L., “Owein: Chwedl Iarlles y Ffynion”, 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. 159–169.
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.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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November 2010, last updated: December 2024
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