Texts

Kyntaw geir
verse beg. Kyntaw geir a dywedaw

Early Welsh
verse

Title

Kyntaw geir

First line also normalised/modernised to Cyntaf gair a ddywedaf.

First words (verse)

Kyntaw geir a dywedaw

Manuscripts

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 1 = Black Book of Carmarthen (Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin) [c. 1250]

ff. 41v.1–42v.1

beg. ‘Kyntaw geir a dywedaw’

RB =

Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111 = Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest) [s. xiv-xv]

Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch [s. xiv^med]

Lost portion of the White Book of Rhydderch (extant parts in Peniarth MSS 4-5).

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 111 [1607–c.1610]

London, British Library, MS Additional 31055 [s. xvi^ex–xviiⁱⁿ]

Language

Early Welsh

Form

verse (primary)

Length

Number of stanzas: 13 englynion

Classification

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Rowland, Jenny, Early Welsh saga poetry: a study and edition of the englynion, Cambridge: Brewer, 1990.

Contents : Part I. Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Llywarch Hen poems -- Appendix: early Welsh genealogical tracts -- Chapter 2. The Urien Rheged poems -- Chapter 3. Canu Heledd : I. The historical background, II. The poems -- Appendix: edition and text of Marwnad Cynddylan -- Chapter 4. Claf Abercuawg and penitential lyrics -- Chapter 5. Miscellaneous saga poems and the performance of the saga englynion -- Chapter 6. Other genres using the three-line englyn metres -- Chapter 7. Metrics, authorship, language, dating. -- Part II: Edition and translation of the texts -- The manuscripts of the saga englynion -- Editorial note -- Texts: Canu Llywarch -- Canu Heledd: Prologue, [etc.] ... [incl.] ‘Englynion Cadwallon’ -- ‘Claf Abercuawg’ and ‘Kyntaw geir’ -- Miscellaneous saga poems: Llym awel -- Geraint fab Erbin -- Gwyn ap Nudd -- Mi a wum -- Taliesin and Ugnach -- Seithennin -- Gwallawg -- Ysgolan -- Trystan fragments -- The three Juvencus englynion -- Miscellaneous stanzas. -- Translations -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index to the textual notes.

452–453 (text); 499–500 (translation); 628–631 (notes)

[ed.] Jarman, A. O. H. [ed.], Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin, Cardiff: National University of Wales, 1982.

[id. 26.]

[tr.] Henry, P. L., The early English and Celtic lyric, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966.

86–88