#  Medieval Poetry 

 



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Excerpt from: "Celtic Literature" *Encyclopedia Britainica*

"Welsh literature has extended in an unbroken tradition from about the middle of the 6th century to the present day, but, except for two or three short pieces, all pre-Norman poetry has survived only in 12th- to 15th-century manuscripts. Welsh had developed from the older Brythonic by the middle of the 6th century. In the *Historia Brittonum* (*c.* 800) references are made to Welsh poets who, if the synchronism is correct, sang in the 6th century. Works by two of them, Taliesin and Aneirin, have survived." [Read more](https://www.britannica.com/art/Celtic-literature)

**Poetry**

[Y Gododin : a poem on the battle of Cattraeth](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:003880045)

[Book of Taliesin](http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/001662972/catalog) (in Welsh with translation by Meirion Pennar)