{"id":35117,"date":"2024-04-07T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=264730"},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:11:35","slug":"welsh-mythology-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/welsh-mythology-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Mark Rees answers listener questions on the extraordinary stories and mystical creatures found in Welsh legends and myth <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rachel Dinning\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 07 April 2024 at 06:00 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>What do white horses symbolise in Welsh mythology? What is the Mabinogion? Was King Arthur from Wales? And why do fairy folk hold a particularly sinister place in Welsh folklore? Speaking to Elinor Evans, Mark Rees takes listeners on a tour of the remarkable creatures and stories of Welsh mythology and legend.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-264730-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/04\/HistoryExtra20240407-c5f3e91.mp3?_=2\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/04\/HistoryExtra20240407-c5f3e91.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2024\/04\/HistoryExtra20240407-c5f3e91.mp3<\/a><\/audio> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mark Rees answers listener questions on the extraordinary stories and mystical creatures found in Welsh legends and myth <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":35118,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/04\/welsh-mythology-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",1292,860,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/04\/welsh-mythology-everything-you-wanted-to-know-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/04\/welsh-mythology-everything-you-wanted-to-know-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/04\/welsh-mythology-everything-you-wanted-to-know-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/04\/welsh-mythology-everything-you-wanted-to-know-1024x682.jpg",800,533,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/04\/welsh-mythology-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",1292,860,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2024\/04\/welsh-mythology-everything-you-wanted-to-know.jpg",1292,860,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Mark Rees answers listener questions on the extraordinary stories and mystical creatures found in Welsh legends and myth","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/35117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}