Author: William Forbes SkenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Welsh poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Two poems from the Cambridge Juvencus
Author: William Forbes SkenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Welsh poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Four Ancient Books of Wales Containing the Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century
Author: William Forbes SkenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A Selection of Early Welsh Saga Poems
Author: Jenny RowlandPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322639
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The saga englynion are among the most appealing medieval Welsh poems. Despite some difficulties, their style is generally direct and their contents interesting to modern readers. In these poems the anonymous poets speak as characters from story. The full narrative setting has been lost, but enough can be reconstructed to appreciate the poetry. This selection includes dramatic dialogues and monologues exploring the acceptable limits of heroism. The old warrior, Llywarch Hen, mourns his sons’ death in battle and his lonely old age full of regrets. Heledd, the only major female character in the saga poetry, laments the loss of her family and her country to the invading English. A Selection of Early Welsh Saga Poems, the fifth volume of the Library of Medieval Welsh Literature Series, presents edited texts from the main manuscripts. The introduction offers a guide to interpretation, dating, and metrics, while a full glossary and explanatory notes make these poems readily accessible to the reader.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum
Author: Catalogue ... 1807-1871
Author: Boston Mass, Athenaeum, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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The Arthur of the Welsh
Author: Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786837358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Little, if anything, is known historically of Arthur, yet for centuries the romances of Arthur and his court dominated the imaginative literature of Europe in many languages. The roots of this vast flowering of the Arthurian legend are to be found in early Welsh tradition, and this volume gives an account of the Arthurian literature produced in Wales, in both Welsh and Latin, during the Middle Ages. The distinguished contributors offer a comprehensive view of recent scholarship relating to Arthurian literature in early Welsh and other Brythonic sources. The volume includes chapters on the 'historical' Arthur, Arthur in early Welsh verse, the legend of Merlin, the tales of Culhwch ac Olwen, Geraint, Owain, Peredur, The Dream of Rhonabwy and Trystan ac Esyllt. Other chapters investigate the evidence for the growth of the Arthurian theme in the Triads and in the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and discuss the Breton connection and the gradual transmission of the legend to the non-Celtic world. The volume, which is unique in offering a comprehensive discussion of the subject, will appeal widely to medievalists, to Welsh and Celtic scholars, and to those non-specialists who have felt the fascination of the figure of Arthur and wish to know more.
The Four Ancient Books of Wales
Author: Translations of the poems: historical poems containing allusions to events prior to A.D. 560
Author: William Forbes SkenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Welsh poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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