๐Ÿ—Culhwch ac Olwen

Culhwch ac Olwen

The oldest Arthurian tale โ€” an original translation, side-by-side with the Middle Welsh.

Storybook

A faithful retelling for readers 8 and up โ€” the whole tale, page by page. Illustrations to come.

The cast

Who does what โ€” grouped by role, linked to the movements where they appear, and to one another.

Character web

The cast as a graph โ€” every relationship in the tale, force-laid. Hover a node to light up its ties; click to open its card.

Drag/scroll/pinch to explore. Node size marks principals and antagonists; colour marks role. Built straight from the relationship edges in the character cards.

Story graph

The tale laid against Propp's 31 narrative functions โ€” each beat linking to the passage that realizes it.

Drag/scroll/pinch to explore; click a node to jump to its detail below.

The mythograph

One graph, all the layers. The twelve movements run as a spine; characters, motifs, story-functions, type-scenes and the Object of desire hang from the moments they touch โ€” and whatever cross-cuts the tale is pulled toward the centre.

Movements Iโ€“XII run left to right. Hover a node to light its threads; click any node for detail. Toggle the layers above to isolate one kind of connection.

Desire

The tale laid against Greimas's actantial model โ€” the functional structure of wanting beneath the plot. Not the social web of who-knows-whom, but the single engine of desire: who wants what, who sends it, who aids and who blocks.

Motif index

The tale by call-number โ€” the Thompson Motif-Index and the ATU tale-types, the folklorists' Dewey decimal for mythic memes.