Texts

Owein (Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn)

Incoming data

A catalogue entry is available.

Manuscript witnesses

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 58

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 148

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 171

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 2034B

Olim Panton MS 68.

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 4

cols 223–261

MS

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 4

f. 49r–f. 51v = col. 225–col. 236

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 4

f. 52r–f. 54v = col. 245–col. 256

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 120

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Oxford, Jesus College, MS 20

Fragment.

f. 16r–f. 21v

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Oxford, Jesus College, MS 20

Fragment.

ff. 16r–21v

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Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111

MS

Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111

f. 154v.1–f. 161v = col. 627–col. 655

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.