The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition
Gorsedd of Arberth
Pwyll is told that a person sitting on the mound will either receive wounds or see a wonder. He chooses to sit with his companions rather than avoid its uncertain consequence. A lady on a white horse appears, yet the riders sent after her cannot catch her through speed. The mound opens the encounter whose resolution depends upon asking her to stop.
Also known as Gorsedd of Narberth
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Principal account
LiteraryPwyll is told that a person sitting on the mound will either receive wounds or see a wonder. He chooses to sit with his companions rather than avoid its uncertain consequence.
Further detail
LiteraryA lady on a white horse appears, yet the riders sent after her cannot catch her through speed. The mound opens the encounter whose resolution depends upon asking her to stop.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows the narrative in Charlotte Guest’s 1877 collection, including its particular spellings and arrangement of tales. Characters, enchantments and explanations of place names are presented as features of these stories; the translation alone does not establish their historical reality or a single original religious meaning.
Original passages
Source 1
The Mabinogion
receiving wounds or blows, or else seeing a wonder.^' " I fear not to receive wounds and blows in the midst of such a host as this,Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition; active reader leaf 369
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Source 2
The Mabinogion
and the greater was his speed, the further was she from him. And when he saw that it profited him nothing to follow her, he returned to Pwyll, and saidOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: The Mabinogion, Guest’s 1877 edition; active reader leaf 370
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0240-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0240-E001-P0370
- Original scan leaf
- 371
- Recorded leaf number
- 371
- Current Reader position
- 362
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed