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[haptalaon]

Also, you can see...even within a few stanzas...why Tolkien would read this and think a) why doesn't England have anything like this? and b) the Mabinogion sucks. Because this leaves all the other ancient folklore in the dust. Beowulf? Meh. Eddas? Eh. This. *this*. Blimey.