Cyfoesi Myrddin a Gwenddydd ei Chwaer ("The Conversation of Myrddin and His Sister Gwenddydd")[1] is an anonymous Middle Welsh poem of uncertain date consisting of 136 stanzas, mostly in englyn form.[2] Myrddin, the legendary 6th-century North British bard and warrior, is depicted as being encouraged by his sister Gwenddydd to utter a series of prophecies detailing the future history of the kings of Gwynedd, leading up to an apocalyptic ending. The mood of the poem has been described as "one of despair and of loss of faith and trust in this world".[3]
- ^ Jarman 1960, p. 15.
- ^ Bollard, John (2019). "The earliest Myrddin poems". In Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen; Poppe, Erich (eds.). The Arthur of the Celtic Languages: The Arthurian Legend in Celtic Literatures and Traditions. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages IX. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 39. ISBN 9781786833433. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
- ^ Bollard 1990a, p. 31.