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Fford y brawd Odrig ‘The way of the brother Odoricus’

  • Middle Welsh
  • prose

Middle Welsh version of the Itinerarium fratris Odorici, a 14th-century account of the travels of Franciscan friar Odoric of Pordenone from Italy to Asia. The Welsh version is known from a unique copy in Llanstephan MS 2, where it is attributed to Syr Dafydd Fychan from Glamorgan.

Author
Ascribed to: Dafydd Fychan of Glamorgan
Dafydd Fychan of Glamorgan
(fl. 15th c.)
Welsh priest to whom a Welsh translation of the travels of Franciscan friar Odoric of Pordenone is attributed.

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Language
  • Middle Welsh
Form
prose (primary)
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Related: Tyfodd un o blant difethTyfodd un o blant difethView incoming data

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Subjects

Odoric of PordenoneOdoric of Pordenone
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[ed.] Williams, Stephen J., Fford y brawd Odrig: o Lawysgrif Llanstephan 2, Cardiff: University Press of Wales, 1929.  
Edition of the Welsh translation of the Itinerarium fratris Odorici
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Dennis Groenewegen
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April 2022, last updated: November 2023