The Boy's Mabinogion - Being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of Hergest #231412

MY dear children, — Infants as you yet are, I feel that I can not dedicate more fitly than to you these venerable relics of ancient lore, and I do so in the hope of inciting you to cultivate the Litera ture of Gwyllt Walia, in whose beautiful language you are being initiated, and amongst whose free mountains you were born.