"On the morrow early he arose, and when he came outside, a fall of snow had come down the night before. And a wild she-hawk had killed a duck alongside the cell, and what with the horse's clatter the she-hawk rose up, and a raven alighted on the bird's flesh. Peredur stood and likened the exceeding blackness of the raven, and the whiteness of the snow, and the redness of the blood, to the hair of the woman he loved best, which was black as jet, and her flesh to the whiteness of the snow, and the redness of the blood in the white snow to the two red spots in the cheeks of the woman he loved best."
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Mabinogion
The Mabinogion is a collection of anonymous medieval Welsh tales, deriving in some cases from the very oldest strata of Celtic legend. The first complete translation of The Mabinogion was published by Lady Charlotte Guest in 1838-1849. The most literal translation is perhaps that of Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, first published in 1949 and cited here in the 1989 revised version. All editions and translations include eleven stories preserved in the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Herge
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