sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2007-01-17 02:17 am (UTC)

As I understand it, Alexander had very little Welsh, and his pronunciation guides don't match up with the way the Welsh is supposed to be at all.

Is all right; I always pronounced his characters' names according to the rules given by Bran.

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(This totally sounds like a fanfic rating.)

I'm sure you knew all that, too.

It's perhaps the only time a simplified mythology hasn't annoyed the living daylights out of me, and perhaps only because I read the Prydain Chronicles before the Mabinogion (or The Owl Service), and only later matched up the characters with their original roles; but for whatever reason, it's never interfered with my liking for the books. And at least Alexander warns the reader that he has altered the mythology rather.

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