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Trawsganu Kynan Garwyn mab Brochuael

  • Middle Welsh, Old Welsh
  • Medieval Welsh poetry
Alliterative poem addressed to Cynan Garwyn, king of Powys (second half of the 6th century). It alludes to a number of his victories, on the River Wye, against the men of Gwent, on Anglesey, and in Dyfed, Brycheiniog and Cornwall.
See Thornton, "Cynan Garwyn (fl. c.550–c.600)."
Author
Ascribed to: TaliesinTaliesin
(fl. 6th century)
renowned British poet, known both as a historical poet at the court of Urien and other rulers and as a more fictionalised persona of supreme status. Poems attributed to him survive in the 14th-century manuscript now known as the Book of Taliesin (NLW Peniarth 2).
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Manuscripts
Language
  • Middle Welsh Old Welsh
  • Middle Welsh, with some "reflexes of Old Welsh orthography" (Isaac)
Date
10th century (Isaac), second half of the 6th century (Williams)

Classification

Medieval Welsh poetryMedieval Welsh poetry
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Subjects

Cynan GarwynCynan Garwyn
(fl. 2nd half of the 6th century)
Ruler of Powys.
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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Isaac, Graham R. [ed. and tr.], “Trawsganu Kynan Garwyn mab Brochuael: a tenth-century political poem”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 51 (1999): 173–185.
[ed.] Williams, Ifor [ed.], The poems of Taliesin, tr. J. E. Caerwyn Williams, Mediaeval and Modern Welsh Series, 3, Dublin: DIAS, 1968.

Secondary sources (select)

Thornton, David E., “Cynan Garwyn (fl. c.550–c.600)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51393>.
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