{"id":129,"date":"2020-01-20T09:57:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T09:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2020-01-20T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:57:14","slug":"eulogy-of-owein-ab-urien","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=129","title":{"rendered":"Eulogy of Owein ab Urien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Canu Taliesin X<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Original Text<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mar\u1efdnat Owein<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eneit Owein ap Uryen,<br>Gobwyllit y Ren oe reit.<br>Reget ud ae cu\u0111 tromlas<br>Nyt oe\u0111 vas y gywydeit.<br>Iscell [pryt], kerd glyt clotvawr<br>Escyll gawr, gwaywawr llifeit,<br>Cany cheffir kystedlyd<br>Y ud llewenyd llatreit<br>Medel galon, geveilat&nbsp;<br>Eissylut y tat ae teit.<br>Pan ladawd Owein Fflamdwyn,<br>Nyt oed vwy noc et kysceit.<br>Kyscit Lloegyr llydan nifer,<br>A leuver yn eu llygeit<br>A rei ny ffoynt hayach<br>A oe\u0111ynt [hya]ch no reit.<br>Owein ae cospes yn drut,<br>Mal cnut yn dylut deveit.<br>Gwr gwiw uch y amliw seirch,<br>A rodei veirch y eircheit.<br>Kyt a cronyei mal calet,<br>Ny rannet rac y eneit.<br>Eneit O[wein] ap Uryen,<br>[Gobwyllit y Ren oe reit.] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Translation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Eulogy of Owein<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The soul of Owein ap Uryen,<br>may the Lord have regard to its need.<br>Rheged\u2019s prince, whom the heavy sward covers,<br>Not shallow was his judgement.<br>At supper time [he heard] the acclaiming song of praise,<br>with the wings of dawn [he hurled] the whetted spears,<br>For no peer is to be found<br>To the prince of radiant cheer.<br>Reaper of enemies, captor &#8212;<br>Heir of his father and forebears<br>When Owein killed Fllamddwyn,<br>It was no greater [feat] than sleeping.<br>The wide host of Lloegr sleep<br>With the light in their eyes ;<br>And those that fled not amain<br>were bolder than [they had] need [to be]<br>Owein punish them grievously<br>Like a pack [of wolves] chasing sheep.<br>A fine man [was he] above his many coloured trappings,<br>Who gave horses to [his] suitors.<br>Before he would lay up a hoard like a miser,<br>It was distributed for his soul.<br>The soul of Owein ap Uryen<br>May the Lord have regard to its need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">~ John Morris-Jones (1918)&nbsp;<em>Taliesin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canu Taliesin X Original Text Mar\u1efdnat Owein Eneit Owein ap Uryen,Gobwyllit y Ren oe reit.Reget ud ae cu\u0111 tromlasNyt oe\u0111&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\/129"}],"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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions\/139"}],"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=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}