If Rhiannon riding calmly past the courts for three days, the Cauldron of Rebirth carried by Bendigeidfran, and Culhwch's impossible trials to win Olwen lit you up, you'll relish the raw, mythic surge of The Táin. Kinsella's translation plunges you into Cú Chulainn's single combats, warp-spasms, and divine entanglements with the Morrígan—echoing the ritual challenges, geasa/tynged, and uncanny marvels that pulse through the Four Branches and the hero-tales of The Mabinogion.

If the making of Blodeuwedd from flowers and her tragic turn in "Math fab Mathonwy" stayed with you, The Owl Service takes that very myth and lets it re-enact itself in a modern Welsh valley. As secret patterns on dinner plates awaken old betrayals, you'll feel the same chill as when Blodeuwedd rejects Lleu—an unfenced, uncanny magic working by fate and symbol rather than rules, much like the enchantments that coil through The Mabinogion.

If you enjoyed Owain's adventures with the Lady of the Fountain, Peredur's perilous training, or the dreamlike pageantry of "The Dream of Rhonabwy," Le Morte d'Arthur gathers those courtly trials and magnifies them into a grand tapestry—from the founding of Arthur's court to the Grail quest and its ruin. You'll find the same breadth of journey and doom-laced fate that stretches from Dyfed to Annwn in The Mabinogion.

If Rhiannon's resilience under punishment, Branwen's costly diplomacy, or Arianrhod's binding oaths captivated you, The Mists of Avalon shifts the Arthurian lens to Morgaine, Gwenhwyfar, and Viviane. It gives the women at the edges of tales like "Pwyll" and "Branwen" the narrative center, exploring how devotion, oaths, and sacred duty shape kingdoms—much as they do in the Four Branches.

If the enchanted fountain duel in "Owain," Peredur's cryptic lessons, or Culhwch's riddling tasks delighted you, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers a single, gleaming ordeal dense with symbols—the beheading game, the girdle's temptation, the color green's wild magic. Its layered meanings and courtly puzzles echo the allegorical shimmer you felt in The Mabinogion's tests and dream-visions.