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Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (née Bertie; 19 May 1812 – 15 January 1895), later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of the Mabinogion, the earliest prose literature of Britain.
Lady Charlotte Guest's work was helped by the earlier research and translation work of William Owen Pughe. [22] The first part of Charlotte Guest's translation of the Mabinogion appeared in 1838, and it was completed in seven parts in 1845. [23] A three-volume edition followed in 1846, [24] and a revised edition in 1877.
Ivor Bertie Guest was born at Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, the son of Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, and Sir John Josiah Guest, 1st Baronet, owner of the world's largest iron foundry, Dowlais Ironworks.
Later Tegid, as a senior bard and scholar, assisted Lady Charlotte Guest in her bilingual publication series, The Mabinogion, which brought the tales to the modern world. Her volume containing the Mabinogi was published in 1845, and her work is still popular today.
Rhiannon riding in Arberth. From The Mabinogion, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, 1877. Rhiannon (/ ˈ r iː æ n ən /) is a major figure in Welsh mythology, appearing in the First Branch of the Mabinogi, and again in the Third Branch.
Lludd and Llefelys (Welsh: Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys, "The adventure or encounter of Lludd and Llefelys" [1]) is a Middle Welsh prose tale written down in the 12th or 13th century; it was included in the Mabinogion by Lady Charlotte Guest in the 19th century.
English author and publisher of the Mabinogion, Lady Charlotte Guest noted that Olwen became the object of later poetry by Dafydd ap Gwilym and Sion Brwynog. The latter begins a poem with the verse Olwen gulael lan galon ("Olwen of slender eyebrow, pure of heart"). [4]
Christopher Williams painted three paintings from the Mabinogion. Brânwen (1915) ... The Second Branch Of The Mabinogi Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest;