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Prifuardd cyffredin

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Welsh prophetic poem found in the second story of Hanes Taliesin and sometimes known itself as Hanes Taliesin.

Manuscript witnesses

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Cwrtmawr MS 20

p. 53

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 2005B

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 1553A

f. 80v

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 5276iiD

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 13075B

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS 13131A

Copy by Iolo Morganwg.

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Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 111

context: Hanes Taliesin

In acknowledgment of his source (A), John Jones ends his copy: llyma yr englynion a ddyle fod yn ossodadwy yn nessa yn ol Dehuddiant Elffin, om tyb i (Ford's transcription).

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For additional sources, see Hanes Taliesin.

[ed.] Ford, Patrick K., Ystoria Taliesin, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1992.

76–78 (ll. 391–461, incl. prose interjections); 51–52, 58 n. 105 (comments); 112–114 (notes); 136–138 (ll. 121–157, text from Pen. 111)

Version recorded by Elis Gruffydd (NLW 5276D) as well as that written in Pen. 111 (appendix).

[ed.] [tr.] Guest, Charlotte, The Mabinogion, from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest, and other ancient Welsh manuscripts, vol. 3, Llandovery, London: Longman, Green, Brown and Longmans, W. Rees, 1849.

Parts 5 (2nd part, continued from vol. 2): Pwyll -- 6. Branwen ... Manawydan ... Math, with title page dated 1845 -- 7. The dream of Maxen Wledig ... Lludd and Llevelys ... History of Taliesin, with title page dated 1849.

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339–340 (text beg. Prifardd cyssefin wyfi Elphin); 373–374 (translation)

According to Ford above, Guest used MS M (NLW 13131A, by Iolo Morganwg) for this part of the tale.

[ed.] [tr.] Meyrick, Samuel Rush, The history and antiquities of the county of Cardigan: collected from the few remaining documents which have escaped the destructive ravages of time, as well as from actual observation, London: T. Bensley for Longman, 1808.

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63–64 (text); 65–66 (translation)

Variants in the footnotes are attributed to a "MS of L. Morris". Cf. Hanes Taliesin for a copy of the tale written by Lewis Morris.

[ed.] Jones, Owen, Edward Williams, and William Owen Pughe, The Myvyrian archaiology of Wales: collected out of ancient manuscripts, 3 vols, vol. 1: Poetry, London: S. Rousseau, 1801.

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17–18

[ed.] Anonymous [ed.], “Difregwawd Taliesin”, Trysorfa Gwybodaeth 1 (1770): 33–34 (section 3).

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The first edition to appear in print. This version begins Mi a fum naw mis hayach. The title heading used here, Difregwawd Taliesin, is commonly associated with a different poem, beg. Goruchel Duw golochir ympob va.