Mabinogi Monday #9 with Tamar Williams

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 another
• The Mabinogi as Welsh language heritage told in English
• Bilingualism 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 Mabinogi
• Negotiating 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 Mabinogi
• The moral complexity of the Fourth Branch
• The character of Manawydan and Guto Dafis’ treatment of him.

Tamar Williams in action