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MEMBRE CORRESPONDANT DE LA SOCIÉTÉ [me Cymmrodorimz a 1 TOME DREMIER PARIS ERNEST THORIN, EDITEUB LlBRAmE DU comme DE FRANCE, DE L’ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE, - DES ÉCOLES FRANÇAISES D’ATEÈNES ET n HOME, . DE LA 306mm DES ÉTUDES BISTÇRIQUES. 7, RUE DE mimas, 7 y 1889.- A M. GASTON PARIS HOMMAGE RESPECTUEUX J. LOTH. [N’lll’ttÏlDUCTlON Un entend par .llain’noyz’on un certain nombre de récits en prose, lllt:!1’V0lll(!llX ou romanesques, de ne- ture et d’origine diverses. La collection la plus im- portante de ces Mabi’nogio’n, sen-cuve dans le celè- bre manuscrit connu sons le nom de Livre Rouge à cause de la couleur de sa couverture. Ce manus- crit, aujourd’hui la propriété du collège de Jésus, à Oxford, est une sorte de corpus de la littérature: galloise. Il se compose de 362 folios de parchemin, à. deux colonnes, et. remonte, en grande partie, gifla fin du quatorzième siècle. Lady Charlotte Guest a. publie, pour la première fois (l), en entier, en 1838, r (l) Le célèbre Owen Pugrhe, auteur d’un dictionnaire gallois- anglais, encore indispensable à consulter, malgré ses défauts, avait préparé une édition complète des Mabinogion, avec notes explicatives. Son travail devait, même commencer à paraître en 1831,,càmme il ressort d’une lettre de son fils Aneurin Owen] publiée’vdans l’AËrchaeologia Cambrensis, 1V, 3° "série, p. 210. Il serait intéressant de savoir ce que ce travail est devenu. Les » Mabinàgi’onîont été misera gallois moderne », mais il est visible que l’auteur a. vsuîri la... traduction anglaise de lady Guest. la " l 2 INTRODUCTION. le texte et la tradm’tion de ces Mabz’mgz’on, avec des notes explicatives, en laissant de coti: ceux qui notaient que des traductions de romans français. Quelques-uns avaient (leja me publies séparément. Le Mabinogi de Pwyll avait par" avec une traduc- tion dans le Cambrien register. Il, p. [77 (1795 et 1796) ; le texte et la tradwtion avaientotcï: reproduits dans le Carnbro-Brz’ton, lI, p. 271 et suiv. (1821). Il est assez curieux (le constater que les mêmes passages ont ete’ supprimes dans cette traduction et dans celle de lady Gnest. Le Mabz’nogz’ de Math, fils de Mathonwy, avait paru avec traduction dans la Cambrien Quarterly (lady Gruest, Mab., III , p. 253). Le Graal avait donne seulement le texte du songe de Maxen Wledic en 1806, p. 289. L’aven- i ture de Lludd et Llevelys se trouvait dejà insérée dans le Brut Tysilio et le Brut Grufl’ydd ab Arthur , publies par la Myvyrz’an Archaeology cf Wales. Une version du même récit avait aussi paru dans le Graal, provenant d’une source différente d’après lady Guest. Le rev. Peter Roberts en avait donne une traduction dans The Chronicle of the Kings cf Britaz’n. Le texte gallois sur lequel repose la tram duction de lady Guest est une copie du texte des Mabinogz’on du Livre Rouge faite par un littérateur gallois, John Jones, plus connu, comme la plupart de ses compatriotes, par son pseudonyme de Tegid. La. traduction de lady Guest est une œuvre remar- quable, faite avec une grande conscience, témoic gnant d’une rare pénétration d’esprit; mais l’auteur INTRODUCTION. d a en à lutter non seulement contre les obscurités du texte. mais encore contre les (lt’rfet’7tuosites de la copie qu’elle avait sons les yeux, Il est visible en maint :ndroit que l’auteur ne se sent pas sur un terrain bien sur; l’expression parfois est flottante et le même mot traduit différemment suivant. le contexte. La on les dictionnaires hésitent. ou ne lui fournissent. aucune lumière, lady Guest n’a pas toujours été bien inspirée. Il eût fallu sur le texte un travail critique préparatoire qui lui a forcément. manque. La traduction corrige néanmoins le texte en maint endroit; le commentaire qui l’accompagne est précieux pour l’intelligence des Partitions gal- loises; en somme, c’est une oeuvre dont l’apparition marque une ère nouvelle dans l’histoire de la litté- rature galloise et l’étude des traditions bretonnes. Outre un certain nombre d’erreurs et d’inexacti- tudes dues au texte et a l’état imparfait des diction- naires, la traduction de lady Guest présente des inexactitudes et des lacunes volontaires. Elle a sup- primé les passages qui lui paraissaient scabreux ou choquants , et singulièrement atténue des crudités de langage et des brutalités de mœurs qui sont ce- pendant loin d’être sans intérêt et sans importance pour l’histoire et la critique.
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    THE REUBEN BOOMERSHINE FAMILY STORY (Some Characters Before 1500) Reynold of CHATILLON-SUR-LOING Birth: 1090/1137 Death: 1187, executed on orders of Saladin after the battle of Hattin Alexander "1st Lord of Boketon" De Boketon: Event: Note As far as ALEXANDER DE BOKETON's ancestors, this was rec'd from LDS, so, they are NOT proven. Event: Note His great grandfather was one of the Norman nobles who invaded England with William the Conqueror. Burial: ABT. 1236 St. John the Baptist Cemetery, Greenes Norton, County Northampshire, ENGLAND Immigration: BET. 1181 - 1202 Removed from the mainland in France to the British Isles (England) Event: Title (Facts Pg) BET. 1202 - 1236 Lord, Sir, Knight (by King John), 1st Baron de Boketon Event: Born 2 ABT. 1181 Boketon, County Northampton, ENGLAND 1 2 3 Religion: Roman Catholic Residence: 1202 King John bestowed estate of Boughton in County Northampton (England) NATI: Norman descendant Note: NOTE: The 'Holy Roman Empire', in general usage, the designation applied to an amorphour political entity of western Europe, originated by Pope Leo III in 800 A.D., and in nominal existence more or less continuously until 1806. For purposes of historical accuracy, it should be noted that, in its initial stages, the organization was styled 'Empire of the West' and 'Roman Empire'; and that the epithet "Holy" did not appear in the official title until 1155. Just an interesting bit of history, apparently our ALEXANDER DE BOKETON b:c 1181 was born under the 'Hohenstaufen Dynasty' with first emperor Frederick I reigning at his birth (c1152-1190, crowned 1155), then emperor Henry VI (1190-1197, crowned 1191).
  • HEART and SOUL Words PHONETICALLY of the Ancient Druid Faith and Shaped the First Gorsedd Rituals

    HEART and SOUL Words PHONETICALLY of the Ancient Druid Faith and Shaped the First Gorsedd Rituals

    VALE OF GLAMORGAN AMBASSADOR LLYSGENNAD BRO MORGANNWG Vale of Glamorgan Heart &Soul ‘The Vale of Glamorgan & Glamorganshire’ Not surprisingly, historical records about the Vale of Glamorgan, often refer to just ‘Glamorgan’ or Glamorganshire’ and each will be mentioned in this account. Glamorgan or, sometimes, Glamorganshire was one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales. It was originally an early medieval petty kingdom of varying boundaries known as Glywysing until taken over by the Normans as a lordship. In later years, Glamorganshire was represented by the three counties of Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan. The name now survives in Vale of Glamorgan, the most southerly county in Wales, neighbouring those of Cardiff, Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taff. Introduction Saints And Scolars The Vale of Glamorgan’s spiritual history is as layered as the liassic The Vale of Glamorgan, with its three limestone of its coast. Neolithic farmers who first established major early monasteries, St Illtud’s settled communities here marked the landscape with their sacred in Llantwit Major, Llancarfan and ritual places: standing stones, causewayed enclosures and and Llandough, is teeming with burial chambers. Later, during the Bronze Age, the tradition the histories and stories of Saints. of honouring wells and springs was part of the spiritual It is also renowned for it’s colourful zeitgeist of the day, each source assigned its own guardian scolars. Here are a few you’ll likely spirit, its own mystical properties of healing and divination. come across during your visit. Many of these traditions trickled through the Age of Saints which saw a greater flourishing in the Vale of Glamorgan than perhaps anywhere else in Wales.
  • Round 8 1. According to One Late Tradition, He Married a Daughter Of

    Round 8 1. According to One Late Tradition, He Married a Daughter Of

    Round 8 1. According to one late tradition, he married a daughter of Minyas named Clymene that bore him Arcesilaus, the father of Laertes. He was awarded the island of Samos during the war against the Teleboans, which was renamed for him. Apollodorus describes how this man was actually a son of Herse and Hermes who fathered Tithonos when he was (*) kidnapped by Eos. This man’s wife was bribed with a golden crown to have sex with Pteleon. Afterwards, she fled to the court of King Minos. When his wife sang a hymn invoking Nephele, he used a weapon he had received from her to impale her, that weapon was a spear that never missed. For 10 points, name this consort of Procris. ANSWER: Cephalus 2. In The Book of the Heavenly Cow, this god pours an alcoholic substance that floods the “four meadows of paradise” and orders Hathor to destroy evil humans. He is sometimes depicted as being merged with Horus of the Double Horizon, during which he is conflated with Horakhty. In a text named after him, this god is bitten by a snake that was created when his daughter used his saliva to create it - that text sees (*) Isis try to learn this god’s true name. This god constantly does battle with the primordial dragon Apophis during the tenth hour of the night, only to emerge victorious every day. Hathor is often said to be the eye of this figure. For 10 points, name this god of the sun who was conflated with Atum. ANSWER: Ra 3.