New Stories from the Mabinogion: The Ninth Wave

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What with religious wars, piracy on the high seas, global plagues and a looming oil shortage, it’s not so far-fetched to imagine a medieval world of the near future. And this is ex actly what Russell Celyn Jones has done in this arresting retelling of the centuries-old Welsh Mabinogion myth, Pwyll, Lord of Dyfed. Pwyll finds his inherited status hard to bear and is never sure how he is drawn into murdering his future wife’s fiancé, losing his son and switching beds with the king of the underworld in a bizarrely upside down world where surfing and sailing are perfect freedom but you need a horse to get home again down the M4. Breathing life into this ancient story and retelling it in modern fictional form, Russell Celyn Jones swops the magical for the psychological, the courtly for the post-feminist and goes back to Swansea bay to complete some unfinished business. Show more