THE MABINOGI - A Four Session Webinar

- Four Thursdays: March 10, 17, 24, and 31, 2022

- 7:00 PM Eastern time

- One fee of $40 covers all four sessions plus two webinar pdfs ("Four Branches of The Mabinogi” and "Travelling on My Own Errands: Voices of Women from The Mabinogi.”).

The Four Branches of The Mabinogi Comprising four interwoven tales, or “branches,” The Mabinogi is known worldwide as one of the most polished and important pieces of early Welsh literature and as a source of much of our knowledge of early Welsh and Celtic mythology. These tales of friendships and feuds, love and war, explore the nature of right and wrong, fidelity and betrayal, honor and shame, and the relationships between men and women.

On four Thursdays (March 10, 17, 24, and 31) at 7 pm EST, John K. Bollard and Margaret Lloyd invite you to join a series of talks and discussions about the "Four Branches of The Mabinogi”.

John Bollard and Margaret Lloyd - photo submitted

John Bollard has translated The Mabinogi into English, and he has written and lectured widely about these tales for fifty years. Margaret Lloyd, an accomplished poet, wrote Travelling on My Own Errands: Voices of Women from The Mabinogi. Her poems respond to the tales through the personae of the women characters, revealing their imagined thoughts and providing us with multiple ways to enter into a closer engagement with a classic of medieval literature that remains relevant today.

Each session will approximately cover one of the four branches, some are longer than others, and session one will include the introduction and context of The Mabinogi. During each session, Margaret Lloyd’s poetry will be chosen to relate to that branch.

Mr. Bollard and Ms. Lloyd highly recommend reading the first branch of the Mabinogi. as well as the poetry, before the first session, and so forth each week, to better understand and enjoy this webinar series. The supplied pdf files make this reading possible. For those who prefer a hard-bound copy of Dr. Bollard's The Mabinogi: Legend and Landscape of Wales, with the text, introduction, an essay on the tales, and 60 glorious photographs by Anthony Griffiths, and of Margaret Lloyd's Travelling on My Own Errands: Voices of Women from The Mabinogi, both are available at bookdepository.com, with free shipping.

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