TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Brynley F. TI - Studies on Middle Welsh Literature SN - 0773496416 U1 - PMC 892.6609 R CY - Lewiston [N.Y.] PB - Edwin Mellen Press, 1992 KW - Welsh Literature KW - Criticism N1 - Donation Item 30109 donated by Proinsias Mac Cana; Donation Item 31179 presented by author; Index Includes index; Review Dafydd Huw Evans, LlĂȘn Cymru, 18 (1995), 378-82; Review Christine James, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 28 (Winter 1994), 105-106; Includes bibliographical references N2 - Vernacular prose, both as medium for record and instruction and as means of entertainment, appears in a written form at an early period of Welsh literary history. It was an amalgam of native features with sources and analogues in traditional Celtic literature, and of borrowings and influences from the broader stream of European culture - Old French epics and chanson de geste texts, as well as Latin literature. This collection of essays look at ways in which the so-called native tales, now called "mabinogion", have become literary stories ER -