"My birthday began with the water birds
And the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horses.
And I rose in rainy autumn,
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days."
- Dylan Thomas, "A Poem in October"

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In many versions, Lancelot and Guinevere fall in love when he rescues her from the knight Maleagant. However, in a fragment of an earlier Welsh legend, it's King Arthur's foster brother Kay who rescues her instead. This suggests that maybe Kay was Guinevere's original lover.
🎨 Henry Justice Ford

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Meet A Welsh Author — Mike Parker and the inspiration of Thomas Hardy
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https://bookertalk.com/meet-a-welsh-author-mike-parker-and-the-inspiration-of-thomas-hardy/

If anyone is looking for a good translation of the Mabinogi, I've heard from multiple Welsh persons now that Sioned Davies's recent translation titled "The Mabinogion" is superior in its accuracy to the original text.

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