I promised to tell you about the Welsh legends of the Mabinogion, well it's really complicated for a young dog to explain the story so I thought I would show you some wood carvings at a campsite where I stay. At the Pen y Bont site there are sculptures by Simon O'Rourke which are based on the Mabinogion legends.
My humans tied me to a sword called Caledfywlch which is the origin of the sword Excalibur.
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| Dragon |
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| Tegid Foel |
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| Bodeuwedd |
In the Mabinogion there are two dragons who fight, this sounds very scary so I would bark at them and then run away as fast as I could. Bodeuwedd was created by druids and after a bit of that falling in love stuff was turned into an owl. What about Tegid Foel? Well he gave his name to Llyn Tegid and was a giant whose wife was a sorceress.
So that's the world's shortest summary of some elements of a really important series of tales about Welsh history.
wags and confused woofs,
Dexter.
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