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English 214 - Medieval Welsh
Craig R. Davis
MWF  10-10:50 a.m.

An introduction to the language and literature of medieval Wales in a series of grammar lessons and readings from the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (14th century), as well as from other tales of refracted Celtic mythology, the early Arthurian legend and poems of praise, love, loss, and Otherworld adventure.  Texts: D. Simon Evans, a Grammar of Middle Welsh (Oxford: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976); R.L. Thomson, ed., Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet (Shannon: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1972).

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