Mabinogion
The Mabinogion is a collection of medieval Welsh prose tales preserved in Middle Welsh. thought to originate in the oral storytelling tradition, the stories were compiled and written down in the 12th to 14th centuries. It is one of the principal sources for Welsh mythology and for the Welsh rendering of Arthurian legend.
The core of the collection comprises the Four Branches of the Mabinogi: Pwyll, Branwen, Manawydan, and Math.
The surviving manuscripts date to the 14th and 15th centuries, with the White Book of Rhydderch and
Significance of the Mabinogion lies in its status as a foundational corpus of Welsh literature, illustrating