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WELSH STUDIES: EARLY AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

WELSH STUDIES: EARLY AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Welsh Studies EARLY AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE By MARGED HA vcocK, Lecturer in Welsh Language and Literature in the University College ofWales, Aberystwyth Gwyn Thomas, Llenyddiaeth y Cymry: Cyjlwyniad Darluniadol, Vol. I, 0 tua 500 i tua 1500, Cow bridge, D. Brown and Sons, 100 pp., offers an attractive illustrated guide to Welsh lit. before c. I 500. Two important articles throw new light on the genesis and transmission of the englyn poetry. Jenny, Rowland, 'The prose setting of the early Welsh englynion chwedlonol', Eriu, 36: 2g-34, surveys the models proposed for the original relationship of prose and verse elements in Irish and Welsh compositions and discusses their applicability to the saga cycles Canu Llywarch Hen and Canu Heledd, the Urien Rheged group, 'Claf Abercuawg', 'Seithennin' and 'Y sgolan'. She concludes that no single hypothesis can accommodate this range of material: some call for a rudimentary narrative setting while others may have been performed in relation to a more developed account of the events which elicited the lyrical responses of the characters in question. In 'The manuscript tradition of the Red Book englynion', SC, I8-I9, I983/8{ ( I985): 7g-95,J.R. argues that the englynion chwedlonol in the Red Book ofHergest are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

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Welsh Studies EARLY AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE By MARGED HA vcocK, Lecturer in Welsh Language and Literature in the University College ofWales, Aberystwyth Gwyn Thomas, Llenyddiaeth y Cymry: Cyjlwyniad Darluniadol, Vol. I, 0 tua 500 i tua 1500, Cow bridge, D. Brown and Sons, 100 pp., offers an attractive illustrated guide to Welsh lit. before c. I 500. Two important articles throw new light on the genesis and transmission of the englyn poetry. Jenny, Rowland, 'The prose setting of the early Welsh englynion chwedlonol', Eriu, 36: 2g-34, surveys the models proposed for the original relationship of prose and verse elements in Irish and Welsh compositions and discusses their applicability to the saga cycles Canu Llywarch Hen and Canu Heledd, the Urien Rheged group, 'Claf Abercuawg', 'Seithennin' and 'Y sgolan'. She concludes that no single hypothesis can accommodate this range of material: some call for a rudimentary narrative setting while others may have been performed in relation to a more developed account of the events which elicited the lyrical responses of the characters in question. In 'The manuscript tradition of the Red Book englynion', SC, I8-I9, I983/8{ ( I985): 7g-95,J.R. argues that the englynion chwedlonol in the Red Book ofHergest are

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Published: Mar 13, 1986

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