Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
Welsh Gypsies, The - Children of Abram Wood — Children of Abram Wood
Welsh Gypsies, The - Children of Abram Wood — Children of Abram Wood
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Argraffiad newydd o lyfr a gyhoeddwyd yn 1991, fersiwn diwygiedig a helaethach o astudiaeth hanesyddol a ieithyddol o'r teulu o sipsiwn Cymreig enwocaf erioed, teulu Abram Wood, cyndeidiau Eldra Jarman, yn disgrifio bywyd, arferion a thraddodiadau'r bobl deithiol hyn cyn iddynt gael eu boddi gan gymunedau'r ugeinfed ganrif. ISBN yr argraffiadau cynt: 9780708315026 a 9780708311066.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
A new edition of a book published in 1991, an expanded and improved version of a historical and linguistic study of the most famous Welsh gypsy family, the family of Abram Wood, of which author Eldra Jarman is a descendant, describing the lives, habits and culture of this nomadic people before being gradually integrated by twentieth-century communities.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780708323984
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780708323984
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Welsh Gypsies, The - Children of Abram Wood — Children of Abram Wood
- Sub Title
- Children of Abram Wood
- Awdur / Author
- Jarman, A.O.H.; Jarman, Eldra
- Current Price ex VAT
- £18.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £18.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2011-05-03
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 228 pages
- Size
- 138 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Bywyd ac Arferion Cymru (yn Saesneg) | EN: Welsh Life and Customs (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Eldra Jarman is a descendant of Abram Wood. She is a great-granddaughter of John Roberts of Newtown and inherited the family gift for harp-playing. A.O.H. Jarman, her husband, was Professor of Welsh at University College, Cardiff until his retirement in 1979.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
The Gypsy family of Abram Wood first arrived in Wales in the eighteenth century, a tawny-skinned people speaking a language close to Hindi and Sanskrit. Welsh society found their customs strange and sometimes unacceptable. The family included such colourful characters as Abram Wood himself, their chieftain, who always rode a pedigree horse but died in a cowshed on the slopes of Cader Idris; Silvaina, who was feared as a witch and who insisted that Robin her mule could understand every word of her Romani speech and Harry, who tried to emulate his idol Dick Turpin by riding a farm horse madly around a field. The Wood family, from Abram to the twentieth century, also provided Wales with many famous skilled harpists and fiddlers who performed Welsh music.
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