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The Gododdin - Lament for the Fallen
The Gododdin - Lament for the Fallen
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Argraffiad dwyieithog, cyfochrog o un o drysorau diwylliannol hynaf Prydain, sef cerdd 'Y Gododdin' yn adrodd hanes y 363 o ryfelwyr ym mrwydr Catraeth tua'r flwyddyn 600 OC.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
The timeless and compelling 'word-music' of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual edition, which shows the early Welsh and modern English side by side.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780571352128
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780571352128
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- The Gododdin - Lament for the Fallen
- Awdur / Author
- Clarke, Gillian
- Current Price ex VAT
- £12.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £12.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2022-05-08
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 144 pages
- Size
- 129 × 198 mm
- Language Code
- Welsh; English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Astudiaethau a Thestunau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Studies and Texts (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Testunau Llenyddol (yn Saesneg) | EN: Literary Texts (in English)
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
The first time a poet has translated this epic text. Gillian Clarke is well loved throughout Wales and the poetry world, following her Laureateship. The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the Angles, only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin, the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy, passed down for seven centuries before being written down in early Welsh by two medieval scribes. It is composed of one hundred laments to the named characters who fell, and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics. Former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke animates this historical epic with a modern musicality, making it live in the language of today and underscoring that, in a world still beset by the misery of war, Aneirin's lamentation is not done.
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