Sir Ifor Williams, FBA (16 April 1881 – 4 November 1965) was a Welsh scholar who laid the foundations for the academic study of Old Welsh, particularly early Welsh poetry.[1]
^Thomas Parry (2001). "Williams, Sir Ifor (1881-1965), Welsh scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
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Sir IforWilliams, FBA (16 April 1881 – 4 November 1965) was a Welsh scholar who laid the foundations for the academic study of Old Welsh, particularly...
believed to have sung at the courts of at least three kings. In 1960, IforWilliams identified eleven of the medieval poems ascribed to Taliesin as possibly...
well represent a shift in actual pronunciation of the vowel sound. Sir IforWilliams asserted that ‘Cyrridfen’ is the most likely original form from ‘cwrr’...
has been focused on the dating of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. IforWilliams offered a date prior to 1100, based on linguistic and historical arguments...
the Poems. E. Williams. Williams, Ifor. 1938. Canu Aneirin: Gyda rhagymadrodd a nodiadau. Aberystwyth: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. Williams, Ifor. 1944. Lectures...
(place name) Trioedd Ynys Prydein Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, vol. IV, p. 3819. IforWilliams (ed.), Armes Prydein (University of Wales Press, 1955). v t e...
Book of Taliesin. It is among those poems in the manuscript thought by IforWilliams possibly to have originated as part of a sixth-century corpus of Canu...
himself associated with the continental figure of Sir Percival de Galles. IforWilliams speculated that he was once the focal character of the Mabinogi as a...
[page needed][page needed] Twelve of the poems in the manuscript were identified by IforWilliams as credibly being the work of a historical Taliesin, or at least 'to...
Kesva an Taves Kernewek (Cornwall) 1993, p81. Canu Llywarch Hen ed. IforWilliams Cardiff, 1935 Haycock. Marged (ed)Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin...
translation) IforWilliams, 'Marwnad Cynddylan', Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 6 (1932), 134-41 (edition, with manuscript orthography) IforWilliams, Canu...
highest peaks in the range, Glyder Fawr and Glyder Fach. According to Sir IforWilliams, the word "Glyder" derives from the Welsh word "Cludair", meaning a...
Canongate, 1998), p. 14. The Poems of Taliesin, ed. by IforWilliams, trans. by J. E. Caerwyn Williams, Medieval and Modern Welsh Series, 3 (Dublin: The Dublin...
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walking and scrambling routes leading to its summit. According to Sir IforWilliams, the word "Glyder" derives from the Welsh word "Gludair", meaning a...
Retrieved 25 October 2015. Celtic Culture, 2006, ed. by John T. Koch, p.719 IforWilliams, Enwau Lleoedd (Liverpool, 1945), p. 18. Compare the late professor's...
Britain. A Welsh-language poem entitled Armes Prydein, considered by Sir IforWilliams to have been written in Deheubarth during Hywel's reign, called for...
north country during the Irish incursions. Watson followed Skene and IforWilliams posed the question 'What about the Battle of Celyddon Wood?' Robert...
Biography. London: E. Williams. Thomas Stephens (1888). The Gododin of Aneurin Gwawdrydd. London: The Cymmrodorion Society. IforWilliams (1938). Canu Aneirin...
towards Capel Curig. It is a popular spot for climbers. According to Sir IforWilliams, the word "Glyder" derives from the Welsh word "Gludair", meaning a...
Horn of Bran", citing Guto'r Glyn, Gwaith Guto'r Glyn, ed. IforWilliams and Llywelyn Williams. Cardiff, 1939. p. 218, lines 61-4. Carey, Ireland and the...
exclusively to the location of modern Edinburgh, but others, such as IforWilliams and Nora K. Chadwick, suggest it applied to the wider area as well....
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