Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. General Editor’s Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Arthur of the Irish: A Viable Concept? 9
6. II. Performing Culhwch ac Olwen 29
7. III. Court and Cyuoeth: Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide and the Middle Welsh Gereint 53
8. IV. Owein, Ystorya Bown, and the Problem of ‘Relative Distance’: Some Methodological Considerations and Speculations 73
9. V. Neither Flesh nor Fowl: Merlin as Bird-Man in Breton Folk Tradition 95
10. VI. Narratives and Non-Narratives: Aspects of Welsh Arthurian Tradition 115