![]() ![]() However, Blodeuwedd falls in love with another man, Gronw Pebr, who conspires to kill Lleu. FfC1sl7mTWīlodeuwedd is part of the Fourth Branch of Mabinogi legends, and tells the story of a woman created out of flowers as a wife for Lleu Llaw Gyffes who was cursed with never being able to marry a mortal woman. Mae Morfydd Clark yn dweud bod darllen y Mabinogi wedi bod yn help wrth baratoi i actio yn y gyfres newydd. “Coming from Wales, people tell you that you have the right to do these things, and I’m so lucky to have that.”Ĭhwedl Blodeuwedd yn ysbrydoli actores Lord of the Rings yn ei rôl newydd□♀️□ “And also as a Welsh person, I would have been part of the arts even if I hadn’t done it as a job. I had moved to London to do drama school and I realised, ‘oh, not everyone does this’. “I didn’t know how lucky I was when I was at school doing the Urdd and everything else. “What has really set me up for Lord of the Rings was doing Blodeuwedd with the Theatre Genedlaethol as that’s the kind of world and magic, so I’m reading a lot of the Mabinogi at the moment to kind of inspire me,” she said. Morfydd Clark told S4C’s Heno that inspiration for the role had come from acting in Blodeuwedd, a play based on Welsh mythology, and also reading the Mabinogion. Welsh speaking actress Morfydd Clark takes the main role as Galadriel in the series which is said to have cost over half a billion pounds.Ī trailer for Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings series prominently featuring two Welsh speaking actors has debuted during the Super Bowl in the United States. Wales’ Mabinogi myths inspired the star of the new Lord of the Rings series which is due to be released on Amazon this September. It picks up the harp and sings.Morfydd Clark and the Lords of the Rings title ‘I have waited a life for this book: our ancient British tales re-told, in English, by a poet, as they were in their original Welsh. The Mabinogi is an important contribution to the storytelling of the British Isles. Permeating the whole sequence is a delight in the power of the imagination to transform human experience into works of tragedy, comedy and wonder. Matthew Francis’s retelling of the first four stories (the Four Branches of the Mabinogi) is the first to situate it in poetry, and captures the magic and strangeness of this medieval Celtic world: a baby is kidnapped by a monstrous claw, a giant wades across the Irish Sea to do battle, a wizard makes a woman out of flowers, only to find she is less biddable than he expected. The Mabinogi is the Welsh national epic, a collection of prose tales of war and enchantment, adventure and romance, which have long fascinated readers all over the world. Through the space between one world and another. ‘Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is riding Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry ![]()
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