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The Gododdin - Lament for the Fallen (Paperback, Main)
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The Gododdin - Lament for the Fallen (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R343
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The timeless and compelling 'word-music' of one of Britain's oldest
cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual edition. The
Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of
Catraeth, around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom
of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the
Angles, only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet
Aneirin, the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung
elegy, passed down for seven centuries before being written down in
early Welsh by two medieval scribes. It is composed of one hundred
laments to the named characters who fell, and follows a
sophisticated alliterative poetics. Former National Poet of Wales
Gillian Clarke animates this historical epic with a modern
musicality, making it live in the language of today and
underscoring that, in a world still beset by the misery of war,
Aneirin's lamentation is not done.
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