The/Book of the Three Dragons Fates of the Princes of Dyfed (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Kenneth Morris
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—mythological
- Time of Work: The mythological past
- Setting: Wales
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Quest, Wales or Welsh people, Celts
- Locales: Wales
The Plot
Although The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed and Book of the Three Dragons were published sixteen years apart and, for the most part, feature different casts of characters, they are closely related. They both use the medieval Welsh prose pieces known as the Mabinogi as their immediate source. The First Branch of the Mabinogi provides the basic plot and characters for the first of these two books; in the second, Kenneth Morris uses characters and plot elements from several branches of the Mabinogi and from other medieval Welsh tales to...
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