@Emmacox The #Mabinogion from Welsh mythology could be a good place to look. There are lots of interesting characters who don’t get enough attention.

@writingswap I just got some feedback from @nebulos, who very kindly read what I've written of my #ShortStory based on the #Mabinogion. This should help me make progress and clarity some of the plot points.

#FeedbackFriday #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #CreativeWriting

@writingswap Just got some feedback from @nebulos, who very kindly read what I've written of my #ShortStory based on the #mabinogion. This should help me make some progress and improve the flow of the story.

#FeedbackFriday #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #CreativeWriting

Amazing scene in Alan Garner's "The Owl Service" where two 1960s Welshwomen in a shop chat matter-of-factly and sympathetically about how unfortunate it is that some visiting English youngsters will have to be the ones supernaturally forced to re-enact a tragic event from the #Mabinogion. The locals clearly all know that this keeps happening every century or so.

#wales #celtic #mythology #fantasy

@lydiaschoch My creative writing #dissertation is a portfolio of short stories inspired by the #Mabinogion. I want to write my own stories that feel as though they belong alongside the ones from #Welsh #folklore.

#CreativeWriting #ShortStories #WritingCommunity

‘The Two Kings’. Statue of Brân the Blessed/Bendigeidfran carrying the body of his nephew Gwern, Harlech Castle #Mabinogi #Mabinogion 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

My #CreativeWriting #dissertation is on the #Mabinogion.

I’d like my collection of #stories to feel like they belong with the eleven stories of the Mabinogion, or as though they could have been told by the same kind of #medieval culture.

I’m studying how the stories work so I can recreate my own. It’s tough, but I’m making progress!

I forgive the accent, I hope you can too.

The Goddess Rhiannon #mabinogion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgVIHZoYfAU

A mari Rhiannon from the Mabinogion riding one of her birds #marilwyd #rhiannon #mabinogi #mabinogion #horseskull #folklore #wales

A new episode is out now. Here's a short extract #mythology #mabinogion

Listen at https://talesofbritainandireland.com/

Or wherever you get podcasts

In #Wales the fertility god #Amaethon was a human farmer able to make even the most unlikely wastelands bloom. He owned a dog, a deer, and a lapwing that he stole from the king of Annwn, the #Otherworld, suggesting that the source of this world’s abundance rests in the mysterious realm beyond. This relatively obscure god was one of the children of the mother goddess Dôn.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @adversecamber20
Amaethon, Welsh god of farming, brother to Gwydion the master magician, both found in the #Mabinogion. Together they used sorcery to w…
https://twitter.com/adversecamber20/status/1014802929105145857

RT @JoyParry13
#FairyTaleTuesday
Siblings #Crearwy (1 of the 3 most beautiful maids in Britain), #Morfran (so ugly nobody would wound him in battle in case he was the devil) & #Taliesin the great bard were the varied offspring of sorceress Ceridwen & giant Tegid Foel.
#Mabinogion

https://twitter.com/joyparry13/status/1600497798704762882?s=12&t=ZDRg3z7rF10JNuWV2sBugQ #folklore #Welsh #Mabinogion #forest #Broceliande

Felly, dw i wedi dechrau llun newydd heddiw. Draig goch a draig gwyn yn ymladd ar ben Yr Wyddfa neu efallai Dinas Emrys!

Which hopefully means

So, I started a new picture today. A red dragon fighting a white dragon over Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) or perhaps Dinas Emrys (as in the legend)

Be interesting to see how it turns out!

#celf #cymru #mabinogion #cymraeg
#arlunydd #artist #sharing #ricrobinsonart

@Fantasy @CindySue @kidlit @ChildrensLit my first introduction to Welsh mythology and probably to Wales as a place! #Mabinogion #BlackCauldron #Taran

On the other place I ran a bot that tweeted out, line by line, 3 times a day, Lady Charlotte Guest's translation of the #Mabinogion. I still have the dB kicking around... anyone interested in a #Mastonogion bot? #Folklore @folklore #Cymru

I know Guest's translation is not the best, but I needed something digital and public domain 😉

@folklore @wihtlore @histodons @pagan I just finished Spear by Nicola Griffith. Short novel (for her) but a deeply interesting interpretation of the search for the grail and King Arthur’s court. She does so much careful research and builds a setting that is so vibrant and Real. Many elements taken from the #Mabinogion which she explains in an afterward. Her writing is gorgeous and I’m already thinking I’ll have to re-read it.

Because of #Efnisien’s troublemaking, his half-brother Brân The Blessed had given Matholwch a magical cauldron in which dead soldiers could be placed and which would revive them as zombie-like killing machines. The #Irish king Matholwch brought out the cauldron to keep his troops strong against the mighty forces of Brân. Efnisien redeemed himself, however, by leaping into the cauldron. As it could reinvigorate only the dead, his living body caused it to burst apart.

Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore`
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RT @JoyParry13@twitter.com
#MythologyMonday
Y Pair Dadeni [Cauldron of Rebirth] was much sought after as it could bring the dead back to life. Efnysien sacrificed his own life to destroy the cauldron after he realised his enemies in a battle were using it to revive their dead warriors.
#Mabinogion

Here's a link to the Mabinogion, if you're looking for a way to pass a rainy day. 📖
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5160/5160-h/5160-h.htm

#Mabinogion
#cymru

Dear Mastodon,
How old were you when you first heard if the #Mabinogion?

@folklore #folklore #literature #Welsh #Arthurian