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Early Welsh dialogue poem between Llywarch Hen and his son Gwên, who utter single englynion in turns.

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 4973B/ff. 49b-376 
context: Canu Llywarch Hen   An additional stanza beg. Teneu fy ysgwyd ar asswy fy nhu (Rowland’s ‘1a’) is written into the margin, with an arrow indicating its position as the first englyn. See Rowlands (1990): 512.

Sources

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[ed.] [tr.] Rowland, Jenny, A selection of early Welsh saga poems, MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature, 5, London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2014.
[ed.] [tr.] Rowland, Jenny, Early Welsh saga poetry: a study and edition of the englynion, Cambridge: Brewer, 1990.  

Contents : Part I. Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Llywarch Hen poems -- Appendix: early Welsh genealogical tracts -- Chapter 2. The Urien Rheged poems -- Chapter 3. Canu Heledd : I. The historical background, II. The poems -- Appendix: edition and text of Marwnad Cynddylan -- Chapter 4. Claf Abercuawg and penitential lyrics -- Chapter 5. Miscellaneous saga poems and the performance of the saga englynion -- Chapter 6. Other genres using the three-line englyn metres -- Chapter 7. Metrics, authorship, language, dating. -- Part II: Edition and translation of the texts -- The manuscripts of the saga englynion -- Editorial note -- Texts: Canu Llywarch -- Canu Heledd: Prologue, [etc.] ... [incl.] ‘Englynion Cadwallon’ -- ‘Claf Abercuawg’ and ‘Kyntaw geir’ -- Miscellaneous saga poems: Llym awel -- Geraint fab Erbin -- Gwyn ap Nudd -- Mi a wum -- Taliesin and Ugnach -- Seithennin -- Gwallawg -- Ysgolan -- Trystan fragments -- The three Juvencus englynion -- Miscellaneous stanzas. -- Translations -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index to the textual notes.

404–406 (text); 468–469 (translation); 512–518 (notes)
[ed.] [tr.] Clancy, Joseph P., The earliest Welsh poetry, London: Macmillan, 1970.
73–74
[ed.] Williams, Ifor, Canu Llywarch Hen, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1935.
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[tr.] Williams, Ifor, Lectures on early Welsh poetry, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944. 76 pp.  
Reprinted in 1954, 1970 and 2009 (ISBN 9780901282262).
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