Petrovskaia, Natalia I., “Cross-legged gods and one-legged foresters”, in: Franca Ela Consolino, Francesco Marzella, and Lucilla Spetia (eds), Aspetti del meraviglioso nelle letterature medievali = Aspects du merveilleux dans les littératures médiévales: medioevo latino, romanzo, germanico e celtico, 29, Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. 357–369.
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The present article is a re-evaluation of a marvellous element in a medieval Welsh romance, Chwedl Iarlles y Ffynnawn ‘Tale of the Lady of the Fountain’, also known as Owein. One of the characters encountered by the hero is a one-eyed one-legged dark giant forester who appears to have a particular power over animals. Previous interpretations of this character and episode have sought explanations and parallels in re-constructed Celtic mythology and the Celtic ‘Otherworld’. The objective of the present article is to demonstrate that the element in question belongs to the pan-European medieval tradition of the marvelous rather than, as has previously been suggested, to an exclusively Celtic tradition.
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