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Canu Heledd (modern Welsh /'kani 'hɛlɛð/, the songs of Heledd) are a collection of early Welsh englyn-poems. They are rare among medieval Welsh poems for being set in the mouth of a female character. One prominent figure in the poems is Heledd's dead brother Cynddylan.

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Canu Heledd

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Canu Heledd (modern Welsh /'kani 'hɛlɛð/, the songs of Heledd) are a collection of early Welsh englyn-poems. They are rare among medieval Welsh poems...

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Cynddylan

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Williams, Canu Llywarch Hen, 2nd edn (Cardiff, 1953), pp. 50–52 (edition, with modernized orthography) Wikisource edition Canu Heledd (Song of Heledd) is in...

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Battle of Maserfield

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participating in the battle (according to the probably ninth-century Canu Heledd), probably as allies of the Mercians. Bede reports the commonly accepted...

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Kingdom of Powys

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in 642. According to the probably ninth-century cycle of englyn-poems Canu Heledd, the region around Pengwern was sacked soon after, its royal family slaughtered...

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Sovereignty goddess

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ritual school of scholarship. For example, the protagonist of the Welsh Canu Heledd is sometimes read in this way, and figures as diverse as Guenevere; the...

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The Wrekin

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of Wrecon appears as a place name in the early Welsh poems known as Canu Heledd. There is an Iron Age hill fort on the summit almost 8 ha (20 acres)...

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Baschurch

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englyn-poem of the same name found in the Welsh cycle of poems called Canu Heledd, generally thought to date to the ninth century: The English name Baschurch...

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Welsh poetry

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woman in northern Europe.[citation needed] The 9th-century Canu Llywarch Hen and Canu Heledd are both associated with the earlier prince Llywarch Hen....

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Pengwern

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Cynddylan, as imagined around the 9th century, are told in the Old Welsh Canu Heledd (a cycle of poems named after Cynddylan's sister), possibly dating from...

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Red Book of Hergest

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Gogynfeirdd or Beirdd y Tywysogion), including the cycles Canu Llywarch Hen, Canu Urien, and Canu Heledd. It contains also poems by Myrddin Wyllt. The Red Book...

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Medieval Welsh literature

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associated with Llywarch Hen, Canu Llywarch Hen and with Heledd, Canu Heledd, dates from a somewhat later period: the whole of Canu Heledd is generally thought...

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Gwylog ap Beli

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There is also a small possibility his mother was Heledd ferch Cyndrwyn, the narrator of the Canu Heledd, as she would have been welcomed by his father Beli...

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Canu Llywarch Hen

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englynion’ (pre-eminently Canu Urien and Canu Heledd), there is considerable uncertainty and debate as to how the poems of Canu Llywarch might originally...

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Englyn

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characters' emotional reflection in stories now lost: Canu Llywarch Hen, Canu Urien, Canu Heledd. Others survey heroic tradition, for example the Englynion...

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Wales in the early Middle Ages

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Seventh-century Pengwern is associated with the later Powys through the poems of Canu Heledd, which name sites from Shropshire to Dogfeiling to Newtown in lamenting...

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Llywarch Hen

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passed down orally before being written down at a much later date. The Canu Heledd, concerning the fall of the kings of the Pengwern region, and the elegy...

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Juvencus Manuscript

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but the situation clearly demands a story background. As in Canu Llywarch and Canu Heledd the speaker appears to be a 'last survivor', but a more active...

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Bible translations into Welsh

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goes into print". Bible Society. Retrieved 25 September 2020. Prichard, Heledd (6 August 2015). "New app gives Welsh speakers three different ways to read...

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