• The Englynion y Beddau (English: The Stanzas or Verses of the Graves) is a Middle Welsh verse catalogue listing the resting places (beddau) of legendary...
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    Englyn (redirect from Englynion)
    Urien, Canu Heledd. Others survey heroic tradition, for example the Englynion y Beddau or Geraint son of Erbin, and others again are lyric, religious meditations...
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    Arthurian legends. Before the twelfth century there are, as in the Englynion y Beddau, reference to the absence of a grave for Arthur suggests that he was...
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    earliest mentions of Camlann is found in the circa 9th/10th-century Englynion y Beddau ("Stanzas of the Graves", Stanza 12) from the Black Book of Carmarthen...
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  • in the poem Arthur and the Eagle. A Madawg's grave is mentioned in Englynion y Beddau, which states: Whose is the quadrangular grave With its four stones...
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    fourth branch of the Mabinogi, as well as in the Welsh Triads, the Englynion y Beddau and several poems in the Book of Taliesin. Arianrhod: Gwydion's main...
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    the works of Chrétien de Troyes and other non-Welsh sources. In the Englynion y Beddau, another Peredur, called Peredur of Penweddig (a cantref of Ceredigion)...
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    was his nature / with sword and shield. The 9th-century version of Englynion y Beddau ("The Stanzas of the Graves") gives Bedwyr's final resting place on...
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    416–8. J. Rowland, Early Welsh Saga Poetry: a Study and Edition of the Englynion (Cambridge, 1990), pp.250–1. R. Bromwich and D. Simon Evans, Culhwch and...
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  • seashore, which must be on or near the location of his grave as told in Englynion y Beddau (Stanzas of the Grave) of the Black Book of Carmarthen xxxii: On the...
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    T. Green, Concepts of Arthur (Stroud: Tempus, 2007), pp.72-5; the Englynion y Beddau reference to the absence of a grave for Arthur suggests that he was...
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  • perched high on an oak tree. Through the singing of an englyn (known as englynion Gwydion) Gwydion lures Lleu down from the oak tree and switches him back...
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  • called "Osfran's Son", who is buried at Camlann according to the Englynion y Beddau (Stanzas of the Graves). Zimmer, Stephan (2004). "Some Names and Epithets...
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    Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales Lludd and Llefelys...
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    Modron's spouse. Modron's name (connected to Mabon) also appears in Englynion y Beddau (Stanzas of the Graves). d'Este, Sorita; Rankine, David (2007). The...
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    Mabinogion (redirect from Y Mabinogion)
    Owein or Chwedyl Iarlles y Ffynnawn. Ed. R.L. Thomson. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1986. Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi. Ed. Ifor Williams...
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    spelling convention to represent the hard ‘c’ sound. But the following vowel, ‘y’ or ‘e’ could well represent a shift in actual pronunciation of the vowel...
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  • Mabinogi, or by Gwyn ap Nudd as the underworld king and king of the fair(y) folk is named in later medieval lore. In Wales, they were associated with...
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  • Annwn"), on his hunt for mortal souls. Angelika Rüdiger's Doctoral Thesis, 'Y Tylwyth Teg: an analysis of a literary motif' (Bangor University, 2021) is...
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  • called him down from the tree with three stanzas of poetry called the englynion Gwydion, transformed him back into a man and with Math nursed him back...
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    early Welsh texts, including Culhwch ac Olwen, Geraint fab Erbin, Iarlles y Ffynnon, Peredur fab Efrawg, Breuddwyd Rhonabwy, Pa Gur, and the Welsh Triads...
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  • Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales Lludd and Llefelys...
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    Phillimore, Egerton, ed. (1887), "Pedigrees from Jesus College MS. 20", Y Cymmrodor, vol. VIII, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, pp. 83–92 Phillimore...
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    down and finds him perched high on an oak. Through the singing of englynion, the englynion Gwydion, he lures him down from the oak tree and switches him back...
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    include the Welsh Triads; the Englynion y Beddau (Stanzas of the Graves), which lists the site of his grave; the Trioedd y Meirch (Triads of the Horses)...
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    Historia Brittonum, and is also mentioned in the collection of poems known as Y Gododdin. Taliesin was highly regarded in the mid-12th century as the supposed...
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    old poem in the Book of Taliesin, while Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr and Prydydd y Moch mention Brân fab Llŷr several times in their poetry, under different...
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  • Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales Lludd and Llefelys...
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    his foes instead of taking over his kingdom like in the Mabinogi. In Brut y Brenhennidd, a Welsh translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum...
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    Dream of Rhonabwy Geraint son of Erbin Other Taliesin Cad Goddeu Welsh Triads The Dream of Macsen Wledig Englynion y Beddau Giant tales Lludd and Llefelys...
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