Black Book of Carmarthen

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Black Book of Carmarthen [W Llyfr Du Caerfyrddin]. The earliest complete manuscript of Welsh poetry, transcribed c.1250, and housed now in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. The collection includes a large number of poems datable from the 9th to the end of the 12th centuries. Many of the poems sing the praise of heroes, including Gwyn ap Nudd. A considerable number of poems are in the voice of Myrddin. Carmarthen or Caerfyrddin is a former county (until 1974) in south Wales, now a part of Dyfed. The Book is called ‘black’ because of its cover, not because it is a polemic or indictment.

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Ed. J. G. Evans (Pwllheli, 1906);
ed. A. O. H. Jarman (Cardiff, 1982).

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