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The reciter’s prologue
verse beg. Gododdin, gofynnaf o'th blegyd

  • Early Welsh
  • Y Gododdin, Prologue
Title
The reciter’s prologue
often referred to as The reciter’s prologue (Jarman heads the text: Rhagair yr adroddwr)
First words (verse)
  • Gododdin, gofynnaf o'th blegyd
Context(s)The (textual) context(s) to which the present text belongs or in which it is cited in part or in whole.
Manuscripts
Cardiff, Central Library, MS 2.81 = Llyfr Aneirin [s. xiii2]
p. 14
beg. ‘Gododin gomynaf dy blegyt’
written by Hand A
Cardiff, Central Library, MS 2.81 = Llyfr Aneirin [s. xiii2]
p. 23
beg. ‘Gododin gomynnaf oth blegyt’
written by Hand B
Language
  • Early Welsh

Classification

Y Gododdin
Y Gododdin
id. 16247

A long heroic poem, or series of verses (awdlau), in Early Welsh.

ProloguePrologue
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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.] Williams, Ifor, Canu Aneirin, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1938.
ll. 640–648 [‘lv A’] A-text
[ed.] Williams, Ifor, Canu Aneirin, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1938.
ll. 649–655 [‘lv B’] B-text
[ed.] [tr.] Jarman, A. O. H., Aneirin. Y Gododdin: Britain’s oldest heroic poem, The Welsh Classics, 3, Llandysul: Gomer, 1988.
[‘1 (lv A & B)’] A and B
[tr.] Jackson, Kenneth H., Aneurin. The Gododdin: the oldest Scottish poem, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1969.  
English translation of Y Gododdin, with introduction and notes.
[‘A 52’] A-text
[tr.] Jackson, Kenneth H., Aneurin. The Gododdin: the oldest Scottish poem, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1969.  
English translation of Y Gododdin, with introduction and notes.
[‘B 2’] B-text
[ed.] [tr.] Koch, John T., The Gododdin of Aneirin. Text and context from Dark-Age North Britain, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997.
[‘B1.2/A.52’]

Secondary sources (select)

Koch, John T., The Gododdin of Aneirin. Text and context from Dark-Age North Britain, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997.
l ff [‘The ascription to Aneirin and the ‘Reciter’s Prologue’’]
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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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May 2013, last updated: January 2024
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