Aneirin: Y Gododdin
A. O. H. Jarman
Number of quotes: 6
Book ID: 288 Page: 0
Section: 4B
IntroductionGeneral
Y Gododdin is a poem of 1257 lines arranged in a hundred and three stanzas. In form it is an elegy, or a series of elegies, for individual members and sometimes groups of members of the tribe of Gododdin who fell at the battle of Catraeth, which is conjecturally dated c. 600
Quote ID: 7378
Time Periods: 67
Book ID: 288 Page: 0
Section: 4B
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCESA close translation is given by K. H. Jackson in the The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish Poem (Edinburgh, 1969; reprinted by Edinburgh Paperbacks, 1978).
Quote ID: 7382
Time Periods: 67
Book ID: 288 Page: 16
Section: 3A4C
Mayest thou attain the abode of heaven because thou didst not flee:
Quote ID: 7384
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 288 Page: 22
Section: 3A4C
Ceredig, lovable chieftain,A ferocious fighter in battle,
….
May he be welcomed among the host
With the Trinity in full unity.
Quote ID: 7385
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 288 Page: lviii
Section: 4B
IntroductionLiterary Characteristics
We have seen how Aneirin’s contemporary Venantius Fortunatus, a bishop of the Gaulish church, was able to offer the father of two fallen warriors the non-Christian consolation that ‘to die for the sake of praise will be to live for ever’.
Pastor John’s note: Right!!
Quote ID: 7381
Time Periods: 67
Book ID: 288 Page: xxxvii
Section: 4B
IntroductionThe Poem
Quite apart from the group from Gwynedd, many of the members of the war-band are depicted as men of substance, lords, even ‘kings’, in their own localities and their munificence as patrons is emphasized.
Quote ID: 7380
Time Periods: 67
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