{"id":124,"date":"2020-01-20T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=124"},"modified":"2020-01-20T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:57:14","slug":"the-praise-of-urien","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=124","title":{"rendered":"Praise of Urien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Canu  Taliesin IX<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Original Text<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dadol\u1efdch Uryen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lleuuyd echassaf,&nbsp; mi nyw dirmygaf<br>Uryen a gyrchaf,&nbsp; idaw yt ganaf<br>Pan del vy gwaessaf,&nbsp; kynnwys a gaffaf<br>A&#8217;r parth goreuhaf&nbsp; y dan eilassaf<br>Nyt mawr ym dawr&nbsp; byth gweheleith a welaf<br>Nyt af attadunt,&nbsp; ganthunt ny bydaf<br>Ny chyrchaf i Gogled&nbsp; armei teyrned<br>Kyn pei am lawered&nbsp; y gwnelwn gynghwystled<br>Nyt reit ym hoffed,&nbsp; Uryen ny gomed<br>Lloyfenyd tired,&nbsp; ys meu eu reufed<br>Ys meu y gwyled,&nbsp; ys meu y llared<br>Ys meu y delideu&nbsp; ae gorefrasseu<br>Med o vualeu,&nbsp; a da dieisseu<br>Gan teyrn goreu,&nbsp; haelaf rygigleu<br>Teyrned pob ieith&nbsp; yt oll yd ynt geith<br>Ragot yt gwynir,&nbsp; ys dir dy oleith<br>Kyt ef mynasswn&nbsp; gweyhelu henwn<br>Nyt oed well a gerwn&nbsp; kyn ys gwybydwn<br>Weithon y gwelaf&nbsp; y meint a gaffaf<br>Many y Duw uchaf&nbsp; nys dioferaf<br>Dy teyrn veibon,&nbsp; haelaf dynedon<br>Wy kanan eu hyscyrron&nbsp; yn tired eu galon <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Translation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p> Most valiant chief,&nbsp; I will not slight him<br>Uryen I will seek,&nbsp; to him I will sing<br>When my warrant comes,&nbsp; welcome shall I receive<br>And the best place&nbsp; under the chieftain<br>I care not much what&nbsp; [bidding I get]<br>I will not go to them,&nbsp; I will not be with them<br>I will repair to the North&nbsp;&nbsp; at the beck of the princes<br>Though it were for much&nbsp; that I gave a pledge<br>I need not reckon it,&nbsp; Uryen will not refuse me<br>The lands of Llwyfenydd,&nbsp; mine is their wealth<br>Mine is their courtesy,&nbsp; mine is their bounteousness<br>Mine are their feasts&nbsp; and their luxuries<br>Mead out of horns and good things without stint<br>From the best prince,&nbsp; the most generous I have heard of<br>The princes of all nations&nbsp; are all thrall to thee<br>In thy advance there is wailing,&nbsp; thou must be evaded<br>Though I had wished it &#8230;<br>There was none I love better&nbsp; before I knew him<br>Now that I see&nbsp; how much I obtain<br>I will no more foreswear him&nbsp; than the most high God<br>Thy princely sons,&nbsp; most generous men<br>Get their booty&nbsp; in the lands of their foes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">~ J. Morris-Jones (1918)&nbsp;<em>Taliesin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canu Taliesin IX Original Text Dadol\u1efdch Uryen Lleuuyd echassaf,&nbsp; mi nyw dirmygafUryen a gyrchaf,&nbsp; idaw yt ganafPan del vy gwaessaf,&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":81,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124\/revisions\/140"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}