Medieval Welsh Literature
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mediaeval Welsh literature is the literature written in the Welsh language during the Middle Ages. This includes material from the time of the tongue's formation between the 5th and 8th centuries to the works of the 16th century. The Welsh language evolved sometime between AD 400 and 700; the earliest surviving literature in Welsh is poetry dating from this period. The poetic tradition represented in the work of Y Cynfeirdd, as they are known, then survives for over a thousand years to the work of the Poets of the Nobility in the 16th century. The…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mediaeval Welsh literature is the literature written in the Welsh language during the Middle Ages. This includes material from the time of the tongue's formation between the 5th and 8th centuries to the works of the 16th century. The Welsh language evolved sometime between AD 400 and 700; the earliest surviving literature in Welsh is poetry dating from this period. The poetic tradition represented in the work of Y Cynfeirdd, as they are known, then survives for over a thousand years to the work of the Poets of the Nobility in the 16th century. The core tradition was praise poetry and the poet Taliesin was regarded as the first in the line. The other aspect of the tradition was the professionalism of the poets and their reliance on patronage from kings, princes and nobles in their turn for their living. The fall of the Kingdom of Gwynedd and the loss of any form of Welsh independence in 1282 proved a crisis in the tradition, but one thatwas eventually overcome. It led to the innovation the development of the cywydd meter, a more loose definition of praise, and a reliance on the nobility for patronage.