Definition of Englynion. Meaning of Englynion. Synonyms of Englynion

- Englyn (pronounced [ˈɛŋ.lɪn]; plural englynion) is a traditional Welsh short poem form. It uses quantitative metres, involving the counting of syllables...
- The Englynion y Beddau (English: The Stanzas or Verses of the Graves) is a Middle Welsh verse catalogue listing the resting places (beddau) of legendary...
- Englynion Gwydion is the name sometimes used to refer to a series of three englyn (Welsh plural englynion) composed by Gwydion to call to him the wounded...
- Englynion y Clywaid (or Englynion y Clyweit) is a collection of Welsh stanzas. The stanzas date to around the 10th century or the late 12th or early 13th...
- mentioned in the poem Arthur and the Eagle. A Madawg's grave is mentioned in Englynion y Beddau, which states: Whose is the quadrangular grave With its four...
- the earliest mentions of Camlann is found in the circa 9th/10th-century Englynion y Beddau ("Stanzas of the Graves", Stanza 12) from the Black Book of Carmarthen...
- would classify it among the most sophisticated and moving all the early englynion poems'; it is 'the classic example' of meditative, lyric, at least implicitly...
- Jenny Rowland, Early Welsh Saga Poetry: A Study and Edition of the ‘Englynion’ (Cambridge: Brewer, 1990), pp. 174–89 (edition and translation) Ifor...
- furious was his nature / with sword and shield. The 9th-century version of Englynion y Beddau ("The Stanzas of the Graves") gives Bedwyr's final resting place...
- court because of some ill-spoken words. As with the other so-called 'saga englynion’ (pre-eminently Canu Llywarch Hen and Canu Urien), there is considerable...