Mabinogi Monday #9 with Tamar Williams
Storytelling with Michael Harvey
English - January 20, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPerforming Arts Arts storytelling wales welsh language mythology legends celtic creativity performing arts traditional stories Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Tamar Williams won the national Young Storyteller of the Year award in 2013. She has appeared at festivals such as Whitby Folk Week, Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival, Lakefest, In The Woods Festival and the Birmingham Book Festival.
Tamar Williams
In this interview Michael and Tamar talked about…
Language, habit and identity. The strangeness of changing from one language to anotherThe Mabinogi as Welsh language heritage told in EnglishBilingualism as a spontaneous response to specific audiences. Allowing the music of language to be heard.The apparent randomness of parts of the narrative in the MabinogiNegotiating different linguistic registers whilst telling the Mabinogi in Welsh and English and from epic to informal.The character of Rhiannon from the First Branch of the MabinogiThe moral complexity of the Fourth BranchThe character of Manawydan and Guto Dafis’ treatment of him.Tamar Williams in action