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Vita Sancti Gildae (Life of Saint Gildas)
Vita Sancti Gildae (Life of Saint Gildas)
The Chronology of Vita Sancti Gildae To understand the significance and influence of Vita Sancti Gildae, one must examine the evidence for the year of Gildas’ birth, the date of the Battle of Badon Hill (supposedly the same year as the birth of Gildas), and the date of the writing
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • December 28, 2020
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Erec by Hartmann von Aue
Erec by Hartmann von Aue
Introduction to the Text, its Summary, and its Manuscript Tradition Erec (Erek, Ereck) is a poem written by Hartmann von Aue in Middle High German rhyming couplets. According to Joachim Bumke (2006), this poem is thought to be the earliest of Hartmann’s narrative works and dates from c AD 1185. 
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • November 30, 2020
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Érec et Énide (Erec and Enide)
Érec et Énide (Erec and Enide)
Érec et Énide is the second of Chrétien de Troyes’ five romance poems, completed late Twelfth Century AD (c AD 1170).  It is one of the four completed works by Chrétien, the other three being Lancelot, or Le Chevalier de la Charrete (Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart), Cligès,
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • August 31, 2020
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Cligès, by Chrétien de Troyes
Cligès, by Chrétien de Troyes
Introduction to the Poem: Structure and Technique Cligès is a poem by the mediæval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from the late 12th Century AD (c 1176).  It is the third of Chrétien’s five Arthurian romances; Lancelot, or Le Chevalier de la Charrete (Lancelot, or The Knight of the
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • July 20, 2020
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The Robert de Boron Cycle
The Robert de Boron Cycle
An Outline of the Cycle’s Contents The Robert Cycle, or Robert de Boron’s Cycle, is also known as La Grant Estoire dou Graal (The Grand History of the Grail), or Roman du Graal (Romance of the Grail), or Livre du Graal (Book of the Grail), or Le Petit Cycle du
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • June 22, 2020
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Vita Sancti Carantoci (Life of Saint Carannog)
The Saint’s Name and the Uncertainties of the Time-Period Carannog is most commonly known as a 6th-Century AD Welsh abbot, confessor, and saint.  In addition to Carannog/Carantog (in Welsh), his name is variously represented as Cairnech/Cairnach/C(h)ernach/Cernath/Carnath (Irish), Caredec/Karanteg (Breton), Carantocus/Carantacus (Latin), and anglicised as Carantock (among other English variations, such
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • April 20, 2020
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Vita Sancti Paterni (Life of Saint Padarn)
Vita Sancti Paterni (Life of Saint Padarn)
Here begins the life of Saint Padarn, bishop. Overview of Padarn and his Vita Padarn(us) (Paternus) was an early 6th Century AD consecrated British Christian abbot-bishop.  This British Padarn and Saint Paternus of Avranches in Normandy appear to be the same person.  By tradition, it is said that Paternus of
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • April 6, 2020
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Culhwch and Olwen
Culhwch and Olwen
Introduction to the Text Culhwch ac Olwen is a Welsh story about a hero associated with Arthur and his warriors.  The story survives in only two manuscripts: a complete version in Llyfr Coch Hergest (Red Book of Hergest) c AD 1400, and a fragmented version in Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch (White
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • January 6, 2020
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Preiddeu Annw(f)n (The Spoils of Annwn)
Preiddeu Annw(f)n (The Spoils of Annwn)
It is a cryptic poem of sixty lines in Middle Welsh, found in Llyfr Taliessin (Book of Taliesin).  The text recounts an expedition with King Arthur to Annwn, the Welsh name for the “Celtic” Otherworld.  Preiddeu Annw(f)n is one of the best known of mediæval British poems.  English translations, in
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • November 25, 2019
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Annales Cambriae (The Annals of Wales)
Annales Cambriae (The Annals of Wales)
Introduction to the Annales Cambriae The Annales are a complex of Cambro-Latin chronicles compiled or derived from diverse sources at Saint David’s in Dyfed, Wales.  The earliest is a Twelfth-Century AD presumed copy of a mid-Tenth Century AD original; later editions were compiled in the Thirteenth Century AD.  Despite the
  • Glyn Hnutu-healh
  • November 18, 2019
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