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Aduwyneu Taliessin

verse

beg. Atwyn rin rypenyt y ryret

Taliesin

Taliesin

(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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Poem attributed to the legendary poet Taliesin.

Angar kyfundawt

verse

beg. Bard yman y mae

Taliesin

Taliesin

(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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Lengthy poem attributed to the legendary poet Taliesin.

Archaf wedi y'r Trindawt

verse

beg. Archaf wedi y'r Trindawt

Short Welsh penitential poem. It occurs in the Book of Taliesin under the heading Marwnat y vil veib, which however, seems to apply to the following series of verses.

Armes Dydd Brawd I (Yrymes Detbrawt)

verse

beg. DEws duw delwa

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.

Armes Prydein

verse

beg. Dygogan awen dygobryssyn

An early Welsh prophetic poem which envisages a future in which the Welsh will join forces with other peoples of Britain and Ireland to resist and drive out the English.

Boddi Maes Gwyddneu

verse

9 st.

beg. Seithenhin saw de allan

A series of nine Early Welsh englynion which elude to a legend about the inundation of Maes Gwyddno, ‘Gwyddno’s plain’, possibly in what is now Cardigan Bay or the Conway estuary. The disaster is said to have happened after a fountain-cupbearer (finaun wenestir) known as Mererid neglected her duty of guarding a certain well, which was subsequently allowed to overflow and submerge the land.

Buarth beird

verse

beg. Ed ympeilli oet ympwyllat

Taliesin

Taliesin

(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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Poem attributed to the legendary poet Taliesin.

Canu Heledd

verse

112 st.

Canu Llywarch Hen

verse

A collection of early Welsh poems in englyn form, most of which are attributed to an elderly Llywarch Hen, a legendary prince of the Old North.

Canu Urien

verse

59 st.

A collection of englynion mourning the death of Urien, ruler of Rheged, which is attested in the Red Book of Hergest.

Canu y meirch

verse

beg. Torrit anuynudawl

Cerdd Ysgolan

verse

6 st.

beg. Du dy farch du dy gapan

Claf Abercuawg

verse

32 st.

beg. Goreiste ar vrynn a eruyn uym bryt

Clywais aran a lefai ym mhwll

verse

1 st.

beg. Clywais aran a lefai / ym mhwll

A single englyn.

Compod manuel (Dafydd Nanmor)

verse

Dafydd Nanmor

Dafydd Nanmor

(fl. c. 1450–1490)

Welsh poet from Nanmor (Gwynedd)

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A metrical computus manualis ascribed to Dafydd Nanmor.

Cyfoesi Myrddin a Gwenddydd ei chwaer

form undefined

Long poem that takes the form of a dialogue or colloquy between Myrddin and his sister Gwenddydd. In response to his sister's questions, Myrddin reveals many details concerning the future of Britain; includes references to Myrddin as a wild man of the woods; Gwenddolau; battle of Arfderydd (570s, Cumbria); includes a regnal list, especially of the Maelgyning kings of Gwynedd, from Rhydderch Hael to Hywel Dda ap Cadell (d. 950) and beyond, at which point the poem becomes obscure. It has been suggested that it was probably originally composed when Hywel Dda reigned supreme over the kingdoms of the Merfynion.

Dadl y corff a'r enaid

verse

beg. Cyfaenad celwydd cynelw o dofydd

Difregwawd Taliesin

verse

beg. Goruchel Duw golochir ympob va

Medieval Welsh poem variously attributed to Taliesin and John (Jonas) of St Davids.

Dygogan awen

verse

beg. Dygogan awen dygobryssyn ... Seith meib o Veli dyrchafyssyn [st. 2]

A short Welsh prophetic poem.

Ef a wnaeth Panthon

verse

beg. Ef a wnaeth Panthon

Englynion Cadwallon

verse

18 st.

beg. Katwallawn kyn noe dyuot

Englynion duad

verse

A series of five Welsh poems.

Englynion Gereint fab Erbin

verse

beg. Panet anet gereint oed agoret pyrth nef

Englynion y beddau

verse

Englynion y misoedd

form undefined

Late medieval poem arranged in twelve stanzas about the months of the year. Contrary to what the title suggests, the verses are not englynion, but each usually consists of eight heptasyllabic lines.

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