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Mabinogi

Evangeline Walton · 4 novels · 1936–1974

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Evangeline Walton's four novels retell the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, the core cycle of medieval Welsh myth compiled from oral tradition in the 12th-13th centuries, following its original figures through their original stories rather than an invented plot. Walton's reinterpretation began in 1936 with what became Prince of Annwn, decades before the rest of the cycle followed; all four were eventually gathered together as one series. Her retellings are considered an early, influential modern engagement with the Mabinogion, alongside later ones by other writers.

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The order the books came out.

Best read in the order they were published.

  • Omnibus editions(1 edition)

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Mabinogi at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.

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  • 1930s1
  • 1940s0
  • 1950s0
  • 1960s0
  • 1970s3

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this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone

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