The opening lines of the poem in Llyfr Ficer Woking, a 16th-century manuscript (MS C 2.114) held in Cardiff Central Library
"His Shadow" (Welsh: Ei Gysgod) is a poem in the form of a cywydd[1] by the 14th-century bard Dafydd ap Gwilym, widely considered the greatest of the Welsh poets.[2] It relates a conversation in which the poet defends his character from the insinuations of his own shadow, and it parodies a popular medieval genre in which the Soul remonstrates with the Body. It has been argued that "His Shadow" was written towards the end of Daydd's poetic career.[3] It was accepted in the 2007 edition of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poems by Dafydd Johnston et al. as a genuine work of his; previously, Thomas Parry had included it in his 1952 edition of Dafydd's works[4] and in his Oxford Book of Welsh Verse (1962)[5] as genuine, though in 1985 he expressed some doubts as to Dafydd's authorship.[1]
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^Clancy, Joseph P. (2016). The Poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym. Bath: Brown Dog. pp. 29, 341–342. ISBN 9781785450891. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^Parry, Thomas, ed. (1952). Gwaith Dafydd ap Gwilym. Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. pp. 372–374. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^Parry, Thomas, ed. (1962). The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 56–58. ISBN 9780198121299. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
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