The Mabinogion, volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mabinogion, volume 1, credited to Anonymous, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Mabinogion, Volume 1, Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest. Read by Martin Geeson. "Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest: On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of the black sheep would cross over, and become white; and when one of the black sheep bleated, one of the white sheep would cross over, and become black. Before passing on to the Mabinogion proper, Lady Charlotte Guest devotes Volume I of her compilation of medieval Welsh tales to three brief romances of Arthur’s Court. The centrepiece is the story of Peredur, the Dumb Youth – known elsewhere as Perceval, Parzifal, the Holy Fool, et al. This is the violent world of satin-clad knights and their clashing encounters, peremptory slayings of giants and cave-dwelling monsters – a world where love is as sudden and final as death." (Introduction by Martin Geeson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mabinogion, volume 1
• Author credits: Anonymous
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 4:52:31

Catalogue topics

• legend
• welsh
• mabinogion

Track guide

1. 01 - The Lady of the Fountain — 25:30
2. 02 - Then the horn for washing was sounded.. — 21:21
3. 03 - Luned set out, under the pretence... — 16:26
4. 04 - And as Owain one day sat at meat... — 28:30
5. 05 - Peredur the Son of Evrawc — 20:50
6. 06 - And Peredur rode forward — 26:18
7. 07 - And the next day Peredur rode forth... — 19:49
8. 08 - And the first night Peredur came to Caerlleon... — 16:54
9. 09 - Arthur was in Caerlleon... — 19:41
10. 10 - And the next day Peredur set forth — 13:09
11. 11 - Arthur was at Caerlleon upon Usk... — 15:43
12. 12 - Then Peredur rode forward — 19:23
13. 13 - The Dream of Rhonabwy — 15:10
14. 14 - After this they saw a troop... — 18:10
15. 15 - And Arthur and Owain marvelled... — 15:47

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