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The Gododdin Lament For The Fallen
The Gododdin Lament For The Fallen
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Description: The timeless and compelling word - music of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual edition. The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the Angles only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy passed down for seven centuries before being written down in early Welsh by two medieval scribes. It is composed of one hundred laments to the named characters who fell and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics. Former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke animates this historical epic with a modern musicality making it live in the language of today and underscoring that in a world still beset by the misery of war Aneirin's lamentation is not done.
Title: The Gododdin Lament For The Fallen
Author(s): Clarke Gillian
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571352128
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 9/10/2024
Category: Poetry
Description: The timeless and compelling word - music of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual edition. The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the Angles only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy passed down for seven centuries before being written down in early Welsh by two medieval scribes. It is composed of one hundred laments to the named characters who fell and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics. Former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke animates this historical epic with a modern musicality making it live in the language of today and underscoring that in a world still beset by the misery of war Aneirin's lamentation is not done.
Title: The Gododdin Lament For The Fallen
Author(s): Clarke Gillian
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Barcode: 9780571352128
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 9/10/2024
Category: Poetry