Comments on: dafyddapgwilym.net http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2007/07/25/dafyddapgwilymnet/ Lost soul, lost road, lost words. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:58:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Uneasy Rhetoric http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2007/07/25/dafyddapgwilymnet/#comment-26021 Uneasy Rhetoric Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:15:58 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2007/07/25/dafyddapgwilymnet/#comment-26021 Mal - interesting. I haven't read Graves in years. I couldn't find it either. Mal - interesting. I haven’t read Graves in years. I couldn’t find it either.

]]> By: Malgwyn http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2007/07/25/dafyddapgwilymnet/#comment-26009 Malgwyn Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:22:27 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2007/07/25/dafyddapgwilymnet/#comment-26009 "There is a poem about Blodeuwedd the Owl by Davydd(sp.?) ap Gwilym, in which she swears by St. David that she is the daughter of the lord of Mona, equal in dignity to Meirchion himself" -Robert Graves, The White Goddess, page 315. Graves should have translated it, as it was sufficiently obscure that most of his readers would never have encountered it. “There is a poem about Blodeuwedd the Owl by Davydd(sp.?) ap Gwilym, in which she swears by St. David that she is the daughter of the lord of Mona, equal in dignity to Meirchion himself”
-Robert Graves, The White Goddess, page 315.

Graves should have translated it, as it was sufficiently obscure that most of his readers would never have encountered it.

]]> By: uneasy rhetoric http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2007/07/25/dafyddapgwilymnet/#comment-25997 uneasy rhetoric Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:05:53 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2007/07/25/dafyddapgwilymnet/#comment-25997 I don't think the Blodeuwedd story is an ap Gwilym poem -- it's from the Mabinogion. I don’t think the Blodeuwedd story is an ap Gwilym poem — it’s from the Mabinogion.

]]> By: Malgwyn http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2007/07/25/dafyddapgwilymnet/#comment-25996 Malgwyn Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:52:16 +0000 http://www.uneasyrhetoric.net/2007/07/25/dafyddapgwilymnet/#comment-25996 Did you see a poem about "Blodeuwedd the Owl"? I couldn't find it. Did you see a poem about “Blodeuwedd the Owl”? I couldn’t find it.

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