Dafydd ap Gwilym

353 Pages·2003·0.9 MB·English

DAFYDD AP GWILYM
HIS POEMS
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Dafydd ap Gwilym
HIS POEMS
!
Translated by
GWYN THOMAS
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
CARDIFF
2001
© Gwyn Thomas, 2001
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ISBN 0-7083-1664-6
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Er Cof
am
Syr Thomas a’r Fonesig Enid Parry
In memory
of
Sir Thomas and Lady Enid Parry
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
Welsh pronunciation: some hints xxv
Abbreviations xxvi
Further reading xxvii
Titles of poems translated xxxi
THE POEMS 1
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The translations in this book up to and including poem 154 are based on
the texts in Sir Thomas Parry’s Gwaith Dafydd ap Gwilym (University of
Wales Press, Cardiff, 1952; 2nd edition 1963). Poems 155 and 156 are
based on Thomas Parry’s edition of the texts, published as nos. 64 and 65,
as by anonymous poets, in The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse (Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 1962). The Welsh text of poem 157 was
published in Ann Parry Owen’s Gwaith Llywelyn Brydydd Hoddnant,
Dafydd ap Gwilym, Hillyn ac Eraill (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic
Studies, Aberystwyth, 1996), pp. 51–91; the Welsh texts of poems 158
and 159 were published by R. Geraint Gruffydd in Zeitschrift für Celtische
Philologie, Band 49–50 (1997), pp. 273–81, and Cambridge Medieval Celtic
Studies, 23 (1992), pp. 1–6, respectively; poem 160 is found in Dafydd
Johnston’s Medieval Welsh Erotic Poetry (Tafol, Cardiff, 1991), no. 1.
I am extremely grateful to Ruth Dennis-Jones, editor at the University
of Wales Press, for her help and exact vigilance in the demanding task of
bringing this work through its proofs to publication.
Gwyn Thomas