Welsh triads

This chart, keyed to Rachel Bromwich's seminal work "Troiedd Ynys Prydein," lists every known triad from the Welsh canon and the manuscripts in which they appear.  It uses Bromwich's triad names and numeration for ease of use. 

This is useful both as an index for Bromwich's book and as a shorthand list of available manuscripts for codicological study. 

Adapted from:  Bromwich, Rachel.  Troiedd Ynys Prydein = The Welsh Triads.  Cardiff:  U of Wales P, 1991.

In Chrétien’s Erec et Enide, depending on the redaction, there are 80 to 100+ characters named, significantly more than in any of his other Arthurian poems.  Using prosopographic techniques my paper will examine the names of those characters; the origins of those names; their use in Erec; and how consistent Chrétien was in the role of those characters in his later poems.
I will argue that, in writing Erec et Enide, Chrétien was laying the foundations for an entire series of Arthurian stories.  This does not mean he had a clear vision of the later tales he wanted to tell.  Rather, I will argue, the names offer evidence of the poet’s awareness of the rich literary and oral tradition he wanted to draw on, including Wace, non- Arthurian Breton lays, and other names obliquely derived from Welsh or other Celtic traditions.  Sometimes, the names were used out of context.  In other cases the actual names, possibly in prior transmission or by Chrétien himself, were wrongly translated or transcribed, with some characters occasionally being recreated in forms quite alien to their origin.  Viewed as a whole, the way Chrétien initially used these names, and then recast some characters’ roles in later poems, either intentionally or unwittingly, has much to tell us about his overall approach to his work.
A heavily truncated version of this paper was presented at the Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in St Louis, Missouri, USA in June 2016.

If you like old legends and how they change through centuries, if you consider these old stories have roots in older civilizations, often disappeared or completely transmuted by time, you will find this Tristan and Iseult story particularly inspiring. People have written so much about it that we have a forest of visions (hiding the simplest trees of common sense) brought by a relatively reduced methodological approaches and methods.
Si vous aimez le cochon, vous serez gâté et vous apprendrez que l'amour n'est que cochon et truie, mais on vous apprendra aussi que le cochon est un animal divin, de l'autre côté de la barrière du réel. Ne parlons pas de la truie puisqu'elle est l'entremetteuse entre l'homme et la salvation suprême. Ah ! le péché originel ! Revu et corrigé à la graisse de saindoux, de sein-doux, de Saint Doux.