Reading List

1. The earliest Welsh texts:

• facsimile: J. Gwenogvryn Evans, ed. The Text of the Book of Llan Dav (Oxford, 1893), opposite p xliii.
• edition and commentary: Dafydd Jenkins and Morfydd Owen "The Welsh Marginalia in the Lichfield Gospels. Part II: the 'Surexit' Memorandum" Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 7 (1984), pp 91-120.

The Computus fragment:

• facsimile: W. M. Lindsay Early Welsh Script (Oxford, 1912), p 53.
• edition and commentary: Ifor Williams "The Computus Fragment" Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies iii (1927), pp 245-272.

The Juvencus englynion:

• facsimile, edition and commentary: Ifor Williams "The Juvencus Poems" in The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry (Cardiff, 1972), pp 89-121.

The Padarn englyn:

facsimile, edition and commentary: Ifor Williams "An Old Welsh Verse" in The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry (Cardiff, 1972), pp 181-9.

2. The Gododdin:

• facsimile: Daniel Huws, ed. Llyfr Aneirin (Aberystwyth, 1989).
• edition: Ifor Williams, ed. Canu Aneirin (Cardiff, 1961).
• translations: K. H. Jackson The Gododdin: the Oldest Scottish Poem (Edinburgh, 1969); A. O. H. Jarman Aneirin: Y Gododdin (Llandysul, 1988).
• commentary: Brynley Roberts, ed. Early Welsh Poetry: Studies in the Book of Aneirin (Aberystwyth, 1988); John Koch The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North Britain (Cardiff, 1997).

This will take us until some time in January, at which point we'll discuss what texts we'd like to read next. I would suggest, as a complete change of pace, either a prose romance (Owein, for example), or some of the poems of either Dafydd ap Gwilym or the Gogynfeirdd.