{"id":92,"date":"2020-01-20T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2020-01-20T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:56:35","slug":"the-battle-of-gwen-ystrad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=92","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Gwen Ystrad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Canu Taliesin II<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Original Text<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p> Arwyre gwyr Katraeth gan dyd<br>Am wledic gweithvudic gwarthegyd.<br>Uryen hwn an wawt eineuyd;<br>Kyfedeily teyrned ae gofyn:<br>Ryfelgar rwysc enwir rwyf bedyd.<br>Gwyr Prydein a dwythein yn lluyd.<br>Gwen Ystrad ystadyl kat kyvygyd.<br>Ny nodes na maes na choedyd<br>Tut achles dy ormes pan dyvyd.<br>Mal tonnawr tost eu gawr dros elvyd.<br>Gweleis wyr gwychyr yn lluyd.<br>A gwedy boregat briwgic.<br>Gweleis i twrwf teirffin traghedic.<br>Gwaed gohoyw gofaran gochlywyd.<br>Yn amwyn Gwen Ystrat y gwelit<br>Gofur hag a gwyr llawr lludedic.<br>Yn drws ryt gweleis y wyr lletrudyon,<br>Eiryf dillwg y rac blawr gofedon;<br>Unynt tanc gan aethant golludyon;<br>Llaw yg croes gryt ygro Garanwynyon;<br>Kyfedwynt y gynrein kywymdon.<br>Gwanecawr gollychynt rawn eu kaffon.<br>Gweleis i wyr gospeithic gospylat.<br>A gwyar a vaglei ar dillat,<br>A dullyaw diaflym dwys wrth kat;<br>Kat gwortho ny bu ffo pan pwyllatt,<br>Glyw Reget revedaf i pan veidat.<br>Gweleis i ran reodic am Uryen<br>Pan amwyth ae alon yn Llech Wen\u00a0<em>Galystem<\/em><br>Y wytheint\u00a0<em>oed llafyn<\/em><br><em>Aessawr gwyr\u00a0<\/em>goborthit wrth aghen.<br>Awyd kat a diffo e Urowyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Translation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p> The men of Catraeth arise with the dawn<br>Around thie prince, victorious raider of cattle.<br>Uryen is he, in the minstrel&#8217;s song;<br>The banquet of princes is subject to him;<br>Warlike, he is named the lord of Christendom.<br>The men of Prydyn advanced in hosts<br>To Gwen Ystrad, the territory of the fighter of battles<br>Neither field nor woods afforded<br>Shelter to aggression when it came.<br>Like waves alout roaring over the land<br>I saw impetuous men in hosts<br>And after the morning battle, mangled flesh<br>I saw the throng of three regions dead.<br>A rueful sullen cry was heard;<br>Defending Gwen Ystrad were seen<br>A low rampart, and dejected tired men<br>At the gate of the ford I saw bloodstained men<br>Laying down their arms before the grey weirs<br>They made peace for they had become weary<br>With hand on cross on the shingle of Granwynion<br>The leaders named their hostages<br>The waves washed the tails of their horses<br>I saw men haggard, ragged<br>And the blood that stained clothes<br>And keen intense fighting in battle;<br>Battle-coverer, they took to flight when they knew<br>Prince of Rheged, I marvel that he was dared.<br>I saw a noble band about Uryen<br>When he contented with his foes at Llech Velen<br>His spears<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 were supplied at need<br>May the desire of battle come to Uryen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">~ J. Morris-Jones (1918)\u00a0<em>Taliesin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canu Taliesin II Original Text Arwyre gwyr Katraeth gan dydAm wledic gweithvudic gwarthegyd.Uryen hwn an wawt eineuyd;Kyfedeily teyrned ae gofyn:Ryfelgar&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\/92"}],"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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"http:\/\/old-north.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/94"}],"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=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}