The dates of the four branches of the Mabinogi

Breeze, A. (Andrew)

Authors:

Breeze, A. (Andrew)

Keywords:

Mabinogi
History of Celtic scholarship
Dating of medieval texts
The twelfth century

Issue Date:

2018

Publisher:

Adam Mickiewicz University

ISSN:

2451-4160

Note:

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Citation:

Breeze, A. (Andrew). "The dates of the four branches of the Mabinogi". Studia celtica posnaniensia. 3 (1), 2018, 47 - 62

Abstract

In a previous issue of this journal, Natasha Sumner of Harvard claimed of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi that the “exact date of composition for the text is not known”; she yet quoted Professor Catherine McKenna, also of Harvard, for the tales as certainly predating the Fall of Gwynedd in 1282. A response to Professor Sumner’s comment thus has three functions. It cites publications on the question from 1897 to 2018; reveals the scholarly disagreement therein; but concludes with evidence to put the tales in the 1120s or early 1130s.

URI:

https://hdl.handle.net/10171/65835

DOI:

10.2478/scp-2018-0003

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