Mythology Web

Writing Pig Boy has made me even more aware of how our stories, landscape and imagination are intertwined. These blog posts follow these obsessions by exploring Welsh myth and landscape, the stories of the Mabinogion and the creative process. Your questions and comments are very welcome!

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Stalked by Oxen - on the trail of the Ychain Bannog

Mythological cattle in Newport, Gwent. They’re everywhere!

So, did I just make all this up?

Pig Boy is an old, old story. Before Pig Book came the show, before that the show came the modern translation, and before that the manuscript and before that a web of stories that stretched from one end of the Celtic World to the other about a young man cursed with love who goes to his king for magical help and initiation

Pig Boy is on his way in a new book!