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