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Yrymes Detbraw ‘The prophecy of Judgment Day’
verse beg. DEws duw delwa

  • Middle Welsh
  • verse
  • Medieval Welsh poetry
Middle Welsh poem, found in the Book of Taliesin, on the events leading up to Doomsday. William Heist has argued that the poem draws on the fifteen-day legend of the Apocalypse of Thomas.
Title
Yrymes Detbraw
‘The prophecy of Judgment Day’
The text is headed Yrymes detbrawt in the manuscript.
First words (verse)
  • DEws duw delwa
Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Welsh
Form
verse (primary)
Textual relationships
There is a modern version of the poem (Armes Dydd Brawd II) as well as a related modern text in prose (known as Arwyddion cyn Dydd Brawd or Gwynn gwarandaw).
(Possible) sources: Apocalypse of ThomasApocalypse of Thomas

Apocryphal Latin text which gives an account of the signs that will supposedly appear in the final week before the Last Judgment. The vision is said to have been revealed by Christ to a certain Thomas, presumably the doubting apostle of that name. Different versions of the text have been transmitted, but a broad distinction is commonly made between (1) a short recension, which is possibly closest to the original, (2) an interpolated one, which contains a preface, and (3) various abbreviated texts.

Related: Armes Dydd Brawd IIArmes Dydd Brawd IIView incoming dataArwyddion cyn Dydd BrawdArwyddion cyn Dydd BrawdView incoming data

Classification

Medieval Welsh poetryMedieval Welsh poetry
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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.] Haycock, Marged, Blodeugerdd barddas o ganu crefyddol cynnar, Felindre, Abertawe (Swansea): Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 1994.
[id. 20.]
[ed.] [tr.] Lambert, Pierre-Yves, “Visions of the other world and afterlife in Welsh and Breton tradition”, in: Martin McNamara (ed.), Apocalyptic and eschatological heritage: the Middle East and Celtic realms, Dublin and Portland: Four Courts Press, 2003. 98–120.
108
See also
[ed.] Heist, William W., The fifteen signs before Doomsday, East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State College Press, 1952.  

Contents: Preface -- Saltair na rann [edition and translation of verses CLIII-CLXII] -- I. The legend -- II. Previous study of the legend -- III. The sources proposed by Nölle and Grau -- IV. The chief early groups -- V. The later development -- VI. Conclusions -- Appendix A. Versions of the Fifteen Signs Annotated -- Appendix B. Versions not used in this study -- Bibliography -- Index.

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[ed.] Lewis, Henry, Hen gerddi crefyddol, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1931.
[id. 8.]
[ed.] Jones, Owen, Edward Williams, and William Owen Pughe, The Myvyrian archaiology of Wales: collected out of ancient manuscripts, 3 vols, vol. 1: Poetry, London: S. Rousseau, 1801.
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88–91

Secondary sources (select)

Lambert, Pierre-Yves, “Visions of the other world and afterlife in Welsh and Breton tradition”, in: Martin McNamara (ed.), Apocalyptic and eschatological heritage: the Middle East and Celtic realms, Dublin and Portland: Four Courts Press, 2003. 98–120.
McKenna, Catherine A., The medieval Welsh religious lyric: poems of the Gogynfeirdd, 1137–1282, Belmont, Mass.: Ford & Bailie, 1991.
74–75
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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June 2014, last updated: January 2024
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