The Gododdin

Download or read book The Gododdin written by Gillian Clarke and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year 600AD. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the English, only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin, the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy, passed down for seven centuries before being written down by two medieval scribes. It is comprised of one hundred laments to the named characters who fell, and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics. Former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke is the first poet to create a translation. She animates this historical epic with a modern musicality, making it live in the language of today.

Download or read book The Gododdin written by Aneirin and published by Llanerch Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Download or read book Goddodin written by John T. Koch and published by Celtic Studies Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem called the Gododdin was composed by Aneurin sometime around 600 AD, but the poem of that name preserved in a 13th century manuscript probably had a history of oral and scribal transmission, and will have undergone changes. Here, Koch establishes the historical context, investigates the process of the poem's transmission and restores the text to its original form. This tranlation of the Book of Aneurin differs from earlier presentations by providing a reconstructed text recovered through principles of textual criticism and historical linguistics. This procedure allows one to separate earlier material from later modifications. The author also provides substantial linguistic notes.

Download or read book The History of Wales in Twelve Poems written by M. Wynn Thomas and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world. This book gives a sense of the view seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods and aspects of the Welsh past into focus. Together, they give the flavour of a poetic tradition, both ancient and modern, in the Welsh language and in English, that is internationally renowned for its distinction and continuing vibrancy.

Download or read book Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd written by Martin J. Ball and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers on the Brythonic languages of the Celtic group is divided into four parts: Welsh linguistics, Breton and Cornish linguistics, literary linguistics, and historical linguistics. This has resulted in a book providing a thorough and comprehensive coverage of this branch of Celtic studies prepared by leading scholars in the field.

Download or read book The Role of the Poet in Early Societies written by Morton W. Bloomfield and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study draws on a wide range of texts — early Irish, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, Early Norse, Old English —to illustrate the role of the poet as a tool of power, as seer, and as ceremonial figure.

Download or read book Gododdin written by Gwyn Thomas and published by Gomer Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic translation of poems from the sixth century. In over a hundred short, rhymed odes, Gododdin commemorates the encounter of 300 Britons with the Angles to win back the land of Catraeth, modern day Catterick, and how that conflict ended in the glorious and heroic defeat of the Britons.