White book of Rhydderch

The White book of Rhydderch (Welsh: Llyfr gwyn Rhydderch) is one of the most notable and celebrated manuscripts in Welsh. Written in the middle of the fourteenth century (ca. 1350) it is the earliest collection of Welsh prose texts, though it also contains some examples of early Welsh poetry. It is now part of the collection of the National Library of Wales. What was one manuscript has now been bound as two separate volumes and are known as Peniarth MS 4 and Peniarth MS 5. Peniarth MS 4 contains the Welsh tales now colle ...

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The Welsh Triads (Welsh Trioedd Ynys Prydein, literally "triads of the island of Britain") are a group of related texts in medieval manuscripts which preserve fragments of Welsh folklore, mythology and traditional history in groups of three. Welsh Triads - Earliest surviving collection. The earliest surviving collection of the Welsh Triads is bound in the manuscript Peniarth 16, now at the National Library of Wales, which has been dated to the third quarter of the 13th century and conta ...

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• Welsh Triads - Earliest surviving collection
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The Mabinogion is a collection of prose stories from medieval Welsh manuscripts. They are partly based on early medieval historical events, but may hark back to older iron age traditions. Mabinogion - Name. Its name comes from a misunderstanding made by the Mabinogion's first English translator, Lady Charlotte Guest: she found in one story the Welsh word mabynogyon and assumed it was the plural form of the Welsh mabinogi. The word mabinogi itself is something of a puzzle, ...

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• Mabinogion - Name
• Mabinogion - Date
• Mabinogion - The stories
• Mabinogion - The Four Branches of the Mabinogi
• Mabinogion - The Native Tales
• Mabinogion - The Romances
• Mabinogion - Bibliography
• Mabinogion - Translations
• Mabinogion - Welsh text and editions
• Mabinogion - Secondary sources

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From ca.1100 until ca.1600 Welsh poetry can be divided roughly into two distinct periods: the period of the Poets of the Princes who worked before the loss of Welsh independence in 1282 and the Poets of the Nobility who worked from 1282 until the period of the English incorporation of Wales in the sixteenth century. Medieval Welsh literature - Poets of the Princes ca.1100-ca.1300. In Welsh this period is known as Beirdd y Tywysogion (=Poet ...

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Medieval Welsh literature, Medieval Welsh literature - Overview, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry before 1100, Medieval Welsh literature - Taliesin, Medieval Welsh literature - Aneirin, Medieval Welsh literature - Llywarch Hen and Heledd, Medieval Welsh literature - Other early poetry, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry 1100-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Poets of the Princes ca.1100-ca.1300, Medieval Welsh literature - Poets of the Nobility or Cywyddwyr ca.1300-ca.1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Other voices in poetry 1300-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh prose, Medieval Welsh literature - Native Welsh tales or Mabinogion, Medieval Welsh literature - Native Welsh law, Medieval Welsh literature - Religious texts, Medieval Welsh literature - History texts, Medieval Welsh literature - Brut y brenhinedd, Medieval Welsh literature - Resources, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry before 1100, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry 1100-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh prose

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Mabinogion - The Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The most mythological stories contained in the Mabinogion collection are collectively titled The Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The first branch tells of how Pwyll, the prince of Dyfed, exchanges places for a year with Arawn, the ruler of Annwn (the underworld), defeats Arawn's enemy Hafgan, and on his return encounters Rhiannon, a beautiful maiden whose horse cannot be caught up with. He manages to win her hand at the expense of Gwawl, ...

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Mabinogion, Mabinogion - Name, Mabinogion - Date, Mabinogion - The stories, Mabinogion - The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, Mabinogion - The Native Tales, Mabinogion - The Romances, Mabinogion - Bibliography, Mabinogion - Translations, Mabinogion - Welsh text and editions, Mabinogion - Secondary sources

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In Welsh literature the period before 1100 is known as the period of Y Cynfeirdd ("The earliest poets") or Yr Hengerdd ("The old poetry"). It roughly dates from the birth of the Welsh language until the arrival of the Normans in Wales towards the end of the eleventh century. The oldest Welsh literature does not belong to the territory we know as Wales today, but rather to northern England and southern Scotland. But though it is dated to be from the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, it has survived only in and thirtee ...

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Medieval Welsh literature, Medieval Welsh literature - Overview, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry before 1100, Medieval Welsh literature - Taliesin, Medieval Welsh literature - Aneirin, Medieval Welsh literature - Llywarch Hen and Heledd, Medieval Welsh literature - Other early poetry, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry 1100-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Poets of the Princes ca.1100-ca.1300, Medieval Welsh literature - Poets of the Nobility or Cywyddwyr ca.1300-ca.1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Other voices in poetry 1300-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh prose, Medieval Welsh literature - Native Welsh tales or Mabinogion, Medieval Welsh literature - Native Welsh law, Medieval Welsh literature - Religious texts, Medieval Welsh literature - History texts, Medieval Welsh literature - Brut y brenhinedd, Medieval Welsh literature - Resources, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry before 1100, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry 1100-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh prose

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The stories of the Mabinogion appear in two Medieval Welsh manuscripts, the White book of Rhydderch (Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch) written ca.1350, and the Red Book of Hergest (Llyfr Coch Hergest) written about 1382-1410, although fragments of these tales have been preserved in earlier thirteenth century manuscripts. Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing manuscripts, but disagree over just how much older. Sir Ifor Williams offered a date prior to 1100, based on linguistic and historical arguments, while later ...

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Mabinogion, Mabinogion - Name, Mabinogion - Date, Mabinogion - The stories, Mabinogion - The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, Mabinogion - The Native Tales, Mabinogion - The Romances, Mabinogion - Bibliography, Mabinogion - Translations, Mabinogion - Welsh text and editions, Mabinogion - Secondary sources

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Welsh was born sometime between 400 and 700 AD and the earliest surviving literature in Welsh is poetry dating from this period. The poetic tradition represented in the work of Y Cynfeirdd ("The early poets"), as they are known, then survives for over a thousand years to the work of the Poets of the Nobility in the sixteenth century. The core tradition was praise poetry and the poet Taliesin was regarded as the first in the line. The other aspect of the tradition was the professionalism of the poets and their reliance on ...

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Medieval Welsh literature, Medieval Welsh literature - Overview, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry before 1100, Medieval Welsh literature - Taliesin, Medieval Welsh literature - Aneirin, Medieval Welsh literature - Llywarch Hen and Heledd, Medieval Welsh literature - Other early poetry, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry 1100-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Poets of the Princes ca.1100-ca.1300, Medieval Welsh literature - Poets of the Nobility or Cywyddwyr ca.1300-ca.1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Other voices in poetry 1300-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh prose, Medieval Welsh literature - Native Welsh tales or Mabinogion, Medieval Welsh literature - Native Welsh law, Medieval Welsh literature - Religious texts, Medieval Welsh literature - History texts, Medieval Welsh literature - Brut y brenhinedd, Medieval Welsh literature - Resources, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry before 1100, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry 1100-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh prose

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It is believed that the earliest written Welsh is a marginal note of some sixty-four words in Llyfr Teilo ("The Book of St. Teilo"), a gospel book originating in Llandeilo but now in the library of St. Chad's Cathedral, Lichfield, and also known as the Lichfield Gospels, or, The Book of St. Chad. The marginal note, known from its opening (Latin) word as The Surexit memorandum, dates from the ninth century, or ...

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Medieval Welsh literature, Medieval Welsh literature - Overview, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry before 1100, Medieval Welsh literature - Taliesin, Medieval Welsh literature - Aneirin, Medieval Welsh literature - Llywarch Hen and Heledd, Medieval Welsh literature - Other early poetry, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry 1100-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Poets of the Princes ca.1100-ca.1300, Medieval Welsh literature - Poets of the Nobility or Cywyddwyr ca.1300-ca.1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Other voices in poetry 1300-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh prose, Medieval Welsh literature - Native Welsh tales or Mabinogion, Medieval Welsh literature - Native Welsh law, Medieval Welsh literature - Religious texts, Medieval Welsh literature - History texts, Medieval Welsh literature - Brut y brenhinedd, Medieval Welsh literature - Resources, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry before 1100, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh poetry 1100-1600, Medieval Welsh literature - Welsh prose

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