2016
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Owen, Ann Parry, “Gramadeg Gwysanau: a fragment of 14th-century Welsh bardic grammar”, in: Deborah Hayden, and Paul Russell (eds), Grammatica, gramadach and gramadeg: vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales, 125, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016. 181–200.
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“Gramadeg Gwysanau: a fragment of 14th-century Welsh bardic grammar”
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Paul Russell (ed.) • Deborah Hayden (ed.), Grammatica, gramadach and gramadeg: vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales (2016)
Pages
181–200
Year
2016
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This chapter discusses a recently-discovered fragment of a Welsh bardic grammar, preserved on a single vellum bifolium in the Flintshire Record Office in Hawarden. It was probably composed in the third quarter of the fourteenth century by an anonymous author from north-east Wales. It is one of only two Welsh literary manuscripts from before 1400 written in a documentary hand (Anglicana) rather than in a book hand. It is quite different from the other surviving bardic grammars and discusses matters such as composition, transmission of poetry (orally and in written form) and orthography in a lively manner, and offering advice to pupil poets. The author was aware of the fact that earlier poetry was preserved in manuscripts with varying orthographical practices; and was also aware of the work of other Welsh grammarians from the past. An edition of the text is offered with accompanying translation.
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