“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
At exactly 0:28 in the video below you will see a name across the map. De Hen Bartia. I might know more Medieval Welsh than I thought. Ravens of Dinefwr centres around a family from Dinefwr in Deheubarth. Breaking down the words WITHOUT le goo goo…I translated DEHENBARTIA as THE OLD PART. Strange that this […]
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I adore this book. As you can see above…my copy is almost stuck together with sticky notes. These are all MY rewrites of the history from a different point of view. Just because I disagree with his conclusions, does NOT mean that I reject his book. FACT! I’m having an AbFab Day :o)
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Am I the only person in the WHOLE WORLD who sees the Mabinogion as a reflection of the House of Comnenus and Tartary? King Arthur? Betrayals? Beheadings? Horses? Celts/Scythians? A Kievan Rus’ from Georgia whom I named Aleksander? The ancient Brythonic Language? The destruction of Welsh Culture and Language? The fact that 12th century Welsh […]
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The Mabinogion has played such a HUGE part in my past decade and a bit more of research for Ravens of Dinefwr. It helped me (along with N.C.) to weld the MSM History of Wales/Ireland/Scotland/The Normans/The Crusades with a new chronology and story. I’ve watched Cerys a few times – she’s my go-to-source for pronunciation […]
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Is this POETRY on POETS Day? I think it is. BEWARE : Another Miss Woodhouse English Literature book we teenagers were FORCED to read for our Edu-ma-cation. WOW! That’ll be about 1,000 decades since I last read Dylan Thomas. NO FEAR, GB. We now have YT and Richard Burton’s VOICE preserved for posterity….or until ‘t’internet […]
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Jog on, fakers. Remove as many True Truthers as y’all want. Truth is built on Rock not sand/ego/money. Truth is all about the year of planning before you write THE NEXT GREAT Novel. Truth is embedded deep in the TRUE soul. Truth is WORDLESS Energy. If Max is right and the likes of […]
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It’s obvious that FEB doesn’t know my work. But someone else does (!) The MAB- IN- OG- ION. The MOST Famous Central Source of WELSH Myth and Legend. Wow! Wanton theft?
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Lalalalalala! Pout. Cerys Matthews. Times 2 The Mabinogion with a Welsh Voice. Bloody Celts!
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Here is Lady Charlotte Guest’s translation of Branwyn. It’s pretty long and not for those with no interest in myth and legend. But it forms a major incident in the Welsh Mabinogi. For me there are many similarities between Branwyn and Cordelia, the daughter of King Lear. She, too, is given away in marriage to […]
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I said the other day that I had to step backwards in order to move forwards… Well. Music Heals. I am NOT a fan of Heavy Metal music but I have been blasting my eardrums these past couple of days with Thin Lizzy. Phil Lynott – beautiful. Died too young. Gary Moore – one of […]
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THE DREAM OF RHONABWY Madawc the son of Maredudd possessed Powys within its boundaries, from Porfoed to Gwauan in the uplands of Arwystli. And at that time he had a brother, Iorwerth the son of Maredudd in rank not equal to himself. And Iorwerth had great sorrow and heaviness because of the honour […]
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