Knightly Legends of Wales; or, The Boy's Mabinogion: Being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of Hergest

· 1881

_All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons_ In the library of Jesus College, Oxford, is an ancient Welsh MS. called _Llyfr[1] Coch[2] O Hergest_;[3] that is, _The Red Book of Hergest_. This MS. was written in the fourteenth century, though some of the compositions which it has collected are of a much earlier date. It contains a number of poems, together with a body of prose romances called _Mabinogion_.[4]…

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