Texts

Moliant Cadwallon ‘In praise of Cadwallon’

Early Welsh
Medieval Welsh poetry

Early Welsh poem in honour of Cadwallon ap Cadfan, king of Gwynedd, who died in 634.

Manuscripts

London, British Library, MSS Additional 14907 [s. xviii]

Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 9094

A number of lines only.

Language

Early Welsh

Classification

Medieval Welsh poetryMedieval Welsh poetry
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Subjects

Cadwallon ap CadfanCadwallon ap Cadfan
(d. c. 634)
king of Gwynedd, traditionally identified with Bede’s Cædwalla in HE 3.1
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Sources

Primary sources

[ed.] [tr.] Gruffydd, R. Geraint, “Canu Cadwallon ap Cadfan”, in: Rachel Bromwich, and R. Brinley Jones (eds), Astudiaethau ar yr hengerdd / Studies in old Welsh poetry: cyflwynedig i Syr Idris Foster, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1978. 25–43.

Edition, translation into Modern Welsh, and discussion

[tr.] Koch, John T. [tr.], “[Various contributions]”, in: John T. Koch, and John Carey (eds), The Celtic Heroic Age. Literary sources for ancient Celtic Europe and early Ireland & Wales, 4th ed., 1, Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003. [Various].

[tr.] Breeze, Andrew, “Seventh-century Northumbria and a poem to Cadwallon”, Northern History 38 (2001): 145–152.