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Early Welsh Saga Poetry: Study and Edition of the Englynion
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ISBN: 9780859912754 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Year of publishing: 1990 Format: Hardback
No of Pages: 700
A study of the early Welsh saga "Englynion", which are lyric poems long presumed to be the poetic remains of lost stories, told in a mixture of prose and verse. Three main cycles survive which centre on Llywarch...Read more
A study of the early Welsh saga "Englynion", which are lyric poems long presumed to be the poetic remains of lost stories, told in a mixture of prose and verse. Three main cycles survive which centre on Llywarch Hen, who loses all his sons in his vicarious quest for glory, Urien Rheged a king unwillingly betrayed by his follower and kinsman, and Heledd, the sole survivor of an English invasion of her country. There are also many non-cyclical poems of the same type featured. The critical discussion of the saga "Englynion" seeks to restore the lost narrative background by careful reading of internal indications and by comparative study. The growth, nature and artistry of each cycle is fully explored, as well as how each relates to the larger corpus. Relevant early Welsh traditions and history are also cited and the broader questions of what was the nature of the original prose setting, the metrical principles and practice, and their relationship to the Old English elegies are also covered.
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-the scholarship and wealth of detailed information that has gone into this work is truly staggering. Rowland deserves the gratitude of celticists for her achievement... Research libraries will...Read more
-the scholarship and wealth of detailed information that has gone into this work is truly staggering. Rowland deserves the gratitude of celticists for her achievement... Research libraries will find it essential.' CHOICE May 91 A reworking the (her) thesis, already renowned in the fields of Welsh and Celtic studies...and regarded as indispensable for any advanced research on the Welsh sagas and related early poetry... Rowlands' discussion ably and thoroughly canvasses issues of theme and genre, metrics, linguistic archaisms and innovations, authorship, and the controversial problem of the nonextant narrative and historical contexts of the poem. She also illuminatingly brings to bear extensive comparanda from the other leading pre-Norman insular literary languages... Offers a thoughtful reassessment of Williams's theories in the light of the developments of the subsequent half-century. SPECULUM With the publication of this impressive edition and study, JR leaps into the very first rank of twentieth-century Celtic scholars. CMCS
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