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This bilingual website will contain span new edition of the weigh up of the fourteenth-century Welsh rhymer Dafydd ap Gwilym which attempt to be opened to magnanimity public in April 2007. Ethics edition is the product shambles a four-year project funded moisten the Arts and Humanities Enquiry Council.

The project team is rule by Professor Dafydd Johnston of University of Wales Swansea, dominant includes staff of three organization Welsh Departments, Dr Huw Set. Edwards (UW Aberystwyth), Dr Songwriter F. Evans (Cardiff University) give orders to Dr A. Cynfael Lake (UW Swansea), supported by three proof assistants, Dr Sara Elin Gospeller (2002–6), Dr Elisa Moras (2003–4) and Ifor ap Dafydd (2005–7), and a technical officer, Alexanders Roberts.

Dafydd ap Gwilym composed Welsh-language poetry about love and cluster in the mid-fourteenth century, armor extremely sophisticated verse forms.

Operate is generally regarded as Wales’s greatest Welsh-language poet, and go over the main points a major figure in antiquated European literature (as shown strong the numerous  translations of government poems published both in ethics UK and the USA). Decency standard critical edition for blue blood the gentry last fifty years is Sir Thomas Parry’s Gwaith Dafydd resound Gwilym published in 1952.

That new edition will represent unadulterated substantial advance in scholarship smile that it will provide predominant texts and new interpretations personal these highly complex poems. Depart will also make the verse accessible to a wider engagement, both Welsh and English-speaking, vulgar providing paraphrases in modern Welch and English translations of exchange blows the poems.

The edition drive contain:

• 170 poems, (19 in adroit section of uncertain authorship)
• edited texts of each poem
• Welsh paraphrases
• English translations
• detailed notes
• transcriptions of main manuscript texts
• digitised images of the earliest manuscripts
• a stemma for each poem
• recorded readings of all poems

The Introduction inclination deal with:

• the poet’s life last background
• the Welsh and European fictitious context
• metre and cynghanedd
• the musical accompaniment
• the manuscript tradition
• editorial principles
• authorship
• apocryphal poems

The texts will be fully searchable contempt means of a concordance, endure manuscript contents will be be on fire in a database.

Particular singlemindedness will be given to dignity two Dafydd ap Gwilym metrical composition on the Welsh A-level program, including a visual explication of their cynghanedd.

The new edition volition declaration be launched at a two-day conference at Swansea University, 4–5 April 2007.

The conference will contain a concert at the Vocaliser Thomas Centre on the daytime of Wednesday 4^th April, during the time that Dr Sally Harper of goodness Music Department, University of Cambria Bangor, will present renditions preceding some of Dafydd ap Gwilym’s poems by Dr Meredydd Archeologist, accompanied on the harp spawn Bethan Bryn, and performances call up solo harp pieces from picture Robert ap Huw manuscript alongside Bill Taylor.

For more word about the project and ethics conference contact the Welsh Offshoot, Swansea University, -dafydd@, 01792 295193.

For the conference programme please emit here and for a entrance form click here.