Abstract
ABSTRACTThe Mabinogion has influenced authors ever since Lady Charlotte Guest’s nineteenth-century translation. In this paper, I reflect on my own 2017 poetic sequence The Mabinogi (Faber, 2017), based on the first four tales, ‘The Four Branches of the Mabinogi’, and discuss the challenges I faced in adapting this medieval prose epic for a contemporary poetry audience. I compare my version with literary adaptations by Saunders Lewis, Alan Garner and Gwyneth Lewis, demonstrating how the meaning of the text changes with each revision, while retaining the qualities of magic and fantasy that account for its enduring popularity.
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