Copyright, 1909, 1912, BY
MARY D. LANIER
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Kai and His Companions at the Castle of the Giant Gwrnach
INTRODUCTION.
In the library of Jesus College, Oxford, is an ancient Welsh MS. called Llyfr[1] Coch[2] O Hergest;[3] that is, The Red Book of Hergest. This MS. was written in the fourteenth century, though some of the compositions which it has collected are of a much earlier date. It contains a number of poems, together with a body of prose romances called Mabinogion.[4]