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Post by Lee on Jul 30, 2007 18:49:14 GMT -1
i am trying to get hold of rachel bromwich's Culhwch ac olwen.
there seem to be two books by that title.
there is th Culhwch ac Olwen: arthurian tale etc and Culhwch ac Olwen: a glossary.
am i right in thinking they go together and compliment each other
anybody have either book? what are they like?
any mention of a pig cult? Culhwch as aeuhemerized pig god (cant think of the gaulish pig god... moch** something)?
hell, anyone fancy posting a sysnopsis of the book?
cheers
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Post by Heron on Jul 30, 2007 19:34:07 GMT -1
Rachel Bromwich's book is a scholarly edition of the tale done in conjunction with someone else whose name escapes me and I can't put my hand on my copy. But it's an edition of the original text with all the scholarly apparatus with notes and glossary and a long introduction. I think the other version you have seen might be a parallel version with the text in English.
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Post by megli on Jul 31, 2007 13:25:35 GMT -1
it's culhwch ac olwen and culhwch and olwen - the latter is an english edition of the book which she and d simon evans originally wrote in welsh. Both present the welsh text with scholarly business, as heron says. The god should have been *moccus or *moccos, etymologically, which just means 'pig'!
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Post by Lee on Jul 31, 2007 16:22:27 GMT -1
thats the chap. found it later on in a P Ford book. well, that makes sense, two versions of the book.
ta very muchly. wont get it in time via interlibrary so will get by without. its on the shppping list now for next payday
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Post by megli on Jul 31, 2007 16:49:42 GMT -1
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Post by Lee on Aug 1, 2007 18:12:24 GMT -1
on the translation of 'cul' as slim is interesting. especially if it is taken to mean young. older boars/pigs being broad beasts and all.
brings a new context to the boar hunt
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Post by megli on Aug 4, 2007 8:25:19 GMT -1
yeah it seems to mean 'slender pigling'. wierd.
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Post by Lee on Aug 4, 2007 10:29:38 GMT -1
if thats the case then it opens up the possibility of there being a myth surrounding Culhwch being sired by a pig god and then going off to kill the old boar to assume his crown. so to speak.
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Post by megli on Aug 4, 2007 19:22:35 GMT -1
mebs. gods know really!
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