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Boddi Maes Gwyddneu‘The drowning of Gwyddno’s plain’

verse beg. Seithenhin saw de allan

• verse

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.

Title

Boddi Maes Gwyddneu

‘The drowning of Gwyddno’s plain’

Entitled Boddi Maes Gwyddneu in Jarman’s diplomatic edition of the Black Book of Carmarthen. Also known as Cantre’r Gwaelod.

First words (verse)

• Seithenhin saw de allan

Manuscripts

• Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 1 = Black Book of Carmarthen (Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin) [c. 1250]

  ff. 53v.6–54r.4beginning: ‘Seithenhin saw de allan’
• Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Cwrtmawr MS 530A

  p. 36

17th-century copies

• Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 120 [c.1607]

  p. 273
• Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 173 [1601 x 1640]

  p. 15
• Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 111 [1607–c.1610]

  p. 226
• Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 107 [1601 x 1666]

  p. 40
• Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 98 B [1601 x 1644]

  p. 46

18th-century copies, many of them associated with Evan Evans

[Not listed at the moment]

See also results from manuscript descriptions

Form

verse (primary)

Number of stanzas

9 englynion

Classification

Subjects

SeithenynSeithenyn

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

See more Mererid [well-maiden]Mererid ... well-maiden

Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.

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Maes GwyddnoMaes Gwyddno

No description available

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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.] [tr.] Rowland, Jenny, Early Welsh saga poetry: a study and edition of the englynion, Cambridge: Brewer, 1990.

464–465 (text); 508–509 (translation); 641 (note) [‘Seithennin’]

[dipl. ed.] Jarman, A. O. H. [ed.], Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin, Cardiff: National University of Wales, 1982.

80–81 [id. 39.]

[ed.] [tr.] Bromwich, Rachel, “Gantre'r Gwaelod and Ker-Is”, in: Cyril Fox, and Bruce Dickins (eds), The early cultures of north-west Europe: H. M. Chadwick memorial studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950. 215–242.

217–218

Secondary sources (select)

Minard, Antone, “The ghost who drowned the world: a migratory legend in medieval Celtic tradition”, Studi Celtici 1 (2002): 111–154.

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May 2022