While many features distinguish Celtic story-telling from other cultures tales and legends, the Celts use of elaborate description, specific social customs and their admiration for courage and wit are displayed most prominently in two tales from The Mabinogion, "How Culhwch Won Olwen" and "The Dream of Rhonabwy". ... This relates the Celtic custom of craftsmen holding a higher class. ... Also customary in the Celtic society is the quartering of soldiers. While this custom was not exclusively Celtic, the townspeople of the time were expected to give lodging to the soldiers of their lord. ... His courage despite all odds speaks of the Celtic admiration for that attribute. ...
An analysis of the Celtic style of story-telling depicts a culture of people set in their ways, and while those ways are clearly different from our own, their literature takes on a different meaning when accompanied by a knowledge of their customs and values.
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