Texts

Y naw rhinwedd ‘The nine virtues’

  • Middle Welsh
  • prose

A Middle Welsh version of the ‘nine answers/virtues of Christ’, which is given by Elis Gruffydd in Cardiff MS 3.4.

Manuscripts
p. 146
rubric: ‘Yn naw rinnwedd a ddanvonnes Duw i druan o ddyn’
beg. ‘Y gynnta yw [megis i dyvod] Duw a'i ennav i hun’
Language
  • Middle Welsh
  • “probably made in the fifteenth century” (Flower).
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Sources

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[ed.] Flower, Robin, “The nine answers”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 1:2 (1922, 1921–1923): 133–139.