Englynion y Clywaid

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Englynion y Clywaid or Englynion y Clyweit is a Welsh collection of poems, composed around the 10th century^[1] or the late 12th or early 13th century according to others and Ifor Williams.^[2] There is a manuscript of the earliest texts of Jesus College 3 (c. 1350) and Red Book of Talgarth (around 1400).

The poem consists of 73 stanzas with proverbs which are attributed to characters from the Welsh tradition or Welsh saints.

References

^ Turner, Sharon (1828). The history of the Anglo-Saxons from the earliest period to the Norman conquest. Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. p. 539. Retrieved 14 June 2011.
^ Edwards, Huw M. (1996). Dafydd ap Gwilym: influences and analogues. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-815901-8. Retrieved 14 June 2011.