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28 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
University of Wales Trinity Saint David (joint submission with University of Wales)
This volume is the only published material featuring the complete ymryson or bardic contest poetry of the cleric-poet ‘Sir’ Dafydd Trefor who was born c. 1460 and who died of the Black Death c. 1528. The volume studies the themes on which he and his bardic opponents debated, subjects ranging from a light-hearted request for a gift of four goats, to a defense of the native bardic tradition and the origin and purpose of Welsh poetry. The volume closes with Ieuan ap Madog ap Dafydd’s elegy to Dafydd Trefor.
Welsh Medium Output - please see brief description.
This volume is the only published material featuring the complete ymryson or bardic contest poetry of the cleric-poet ‘Sir’ Dafydd Trefor who was born c. 1460 and who died of the Black Death c. 1528. The volume studies the themes on which he and his bardic opponents debated, subjects ranging from a light-hearted request for a gift of four goats, to a defense of the native bardic tradition and the origin and purpose of Welsh poetry. The volume closes with Ieuan ap Madog ap Dafydd’s elegy to Dafydd Trefor.
