Ymadawiad Arthur

The front cover of a 1910 collection by T. Gwynn Jones that includes Ymadawiad Arthur as its title-poem

Ymadawiad Arthur ('The Passing of Arthur')[1] is a Welsh-language poem, some 350 lines in length,[2] by T. Gwynn Jones. It won its author the Chair at the National Eisteddfod in 1902 but was several times heavily revised by him in later years. It portrays King Arthur's last hours with his companion Bedwyr at the battle of Camlann and his final departure for Afallon. Ymadawiad Arthur is a hugely influential work, widely held to have opened a new era for Welsh-language poetry,[3] marking the beginning of the early 20th-century renaissance of Welsh literature.[4]

  1. ^ Jones, Emrys Wynn. "Jones, Thomas Gwynn". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37616. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Davies 1970, p. 2.
  3. ^ Hunter 2007, p. 119.
  4. ^ Thomas, M. Wynn (1999). Corresponding Cultures: The Two Literatures of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 51. ISBN 0708315313. Retrieved 31 January 2021.