Foreword (Oral Tradition, 26/2, 2011)

I propose that this episode from the twelfth-century Welsh prose composition known as the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (specifically, from the Second Branch) gives us much to think about as we undertake the pleasurable task of paying tribute to a pioneer in the study of oral tradition--and not just because John and his reputation, like Bendigeidfran, are so much larger than life. (I hope that in comparing him to a Welsh nemesis of the Irish I am not offending John's Gaelic ancestors.)Issue title: Festschrift for John Miles Foley