Dafydd ap Gwilym
Feb. 7th, 2023 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Today, from Carol Rumen's column in the Guardian, I learned about Dafydd ap Gwilym, and, if you're as ignorant of medieval poetry as I am, so should you :)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/06/poem-of-the-week-from-morfudd-like-the-sun-by-dafydd-ap-gwilym (I don't agree with all her interpretations, btw. For instance, a woman as a sheen of white snow on a pebbly field is not necessarily naked. She could just be joy-bringing or exalting, and that's really more likely in context, although, of course, that's a guess, having not read the full poem in the original.).
Today, from Carol Rumen's column in the Guardian, I learned about Dafydd ap Gwilym, and, if you're as ignorant of medieval poetry as I am, so should you :)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/06/poem-of-the-week-from-morfudd-like-the-sun-by-dafydd-ap-gwilym (I don't agree with all her interpretations, btw. For instance, a woman as a sheen of white snow on a pebbly field is not necessarily naked. She could just be joy-bringing or exalting, and that's really more likely in context, although, of course, that's a guess, having not read the full poem in the original.).
