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Giants, Boar-hunts, and Barbering: Masculinity in Culhwch ac Olwen
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 15, Number 3, Fall 2005
- pp. 3-25
- 10.1353/art.2005.0051
- Article
- Additional Information
Analysis of Culhwch ac Olwen's barbering theme demonstrates that Culhwch's heterosexual coming-of-age necessitates quests for masculine signifiers, overdetermining the emasculation of Ysbaddaden's final defeat.