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0:14.0 | Hello, English soldiers killed Llewell and the last sovereign Prince of Wales in 1282. |
0:20.0 | The Mabby Noggin were written down in the century that followed on the English rule. |
0:25.0 | These 11 stories told of great adventures of Welsh heroes in a past enhanced with myth and magic |
0:30.0 | before the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons when the Welsh were the people of all Britain. |
0:34.0 | Generations of Bards had been telling some such as those of Killer, |
0:38.2 | Kyn Olwyn, Pruderi and his mother Yannin, of Giants and Battles, while others were borrowing from French. |
0:44.0 | And the tales found new ordinances worldwide after the 19th century when Lady Charlotte Guest translated them into English. |
0:52.0 | We're meeting to discuss the Mabby Noggin. |
0:54.0 | Sean Ed Davis, Professor in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University. |
0:58.0 | Helen Fulton, Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. |
1:02.0 | And Juliet Wood, Associate Lecturer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University. |
1:06.0 | Helen Fulton, what was changing in Wales when these stories were written down? |
1:11.0 | We don't know the exact dates when the stories were written down. |
1:16.0 | They obviously took shape before 1282 and then the versions we have post-81282. |
1:22.0 | 1282 was an enormous watershed in Welsh history. |
1:26.0 | Before 1282 it was the Normans who'd settled Wales after 1066 when they conquered England. |
1:32.0 | They also settled extensively in Wales. |
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