These eleven Welsh stories, beautiful in their strangeness, combine fact with fantasy, myth with history and folklore, into one of the great Welsh epics, the only Welsh collection that survived. Composed orally over the centuries, passed down and embellished by storytellers, finally written down in the 13th century, this is the story of Welsh history, full of heroics and the idealistic world of Celtic Britain, with Arthur's court as the backdrop.  (GBR67, $12.00)