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The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg Vol. I

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« Reply #120 on: October 22, 2009, 01:15:06 pm »

37:3 Pardion--parodion. Another reading has parorion, continued, permanent.

39:1 p. 38 Al. "invested with."



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« Reply #121 on: October 22, 2009, 01:16:28 pm »

ORIGIN OF LETTERS.
Einigain, Einigair, or Einiger, the Giant, was the first that made a letter to be a sign of the first vocalization that was ever heard, namely, the Name of God. That is to say, God pronounced His Name, and with the word all the world and its appurtenances, and all the universe leaped together into existence and life, with the triumph of a song of joy. 2 The same song was the first poem 3 that was ever heard, and the sound of the song travelled as far as God and His existence are, and the way in which every other existence, springing in unity with Him, has travelled for ever and ever. And it sprang from inopportune nothing; that is to say, so sweetly and
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« Reply #122 on: October 22, 2009, 01:16:38 pm »

melodiously did God declare His Name, that life vibrated through all existence, and through every existing materiality. And the blessed in heaven shall hear it for ever and ever, and where it is heard, there cannot be other than the might of being and life for ever and ever. It was from the hearing, and from him who heard it, that sciences and knowledge and under-



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« Reply #123 on: October 22, 2009, 01:17:02 pm »

standing and awen from God, were obtained. The symbol of God's Name from the beginning was , afterwards
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« Reply #124 on: October 22, 2009, 01:17:31 pm »

, and now OIW; and from the quality of this symbol proceed every form and sign of voice, and sound, and name, and condition
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« Reply #125 on: October 22, 2009, 01:17:50 pm »

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39:2 There was some such tradition about the Creation in Job's time, as we infer from Chap. xxxviii. 7 of his Book. "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

There is an allusion to the creative melody in the poetic compositions of the Bards. Thus in a version of the "Englynion y Coronog Faban" attributed to Aneurin, about A.D. 550.--

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« Reply #126 on: October 22, 2009, 01:18:06 pm »

Coronog Faban y dydd cynta
A gant ganon yn y gwenydfa
Ag awen gogoniant o’r uchelfa
Gan floedd bydoedd a byw Adda.

The crowned Babe, on the first day,
Sang a chant in the region of bliss,
And the awen of glory came from the high place,
With the shout of the worlds, and Adam lived.

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« Reply #127 on: October 22, 2009, 01:18:18 pm »

And William Cynwal (1560-1600)--


Yr awen o’r dechreuad
Gwedi’r Ton oedd gyda’r Tad.

The awen from the beginning,
After the tone, was with the Father
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« Reply #128 on: October 22, 2009, 01:18:27 pm »

39:3 Cymrice cerdd, which, though now universally meaning a poem, or a song, seems to have originally denoted a going or a walk. We have thus the reason why it received its secondary meaning, i.e. because the melody of the divine vocalization a gerddodd, walked through, or pervaded all creation.
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« Reply #129 on: October 22, 2009, 01:18:51 pm »

THE INVENTOR OF VOCAL SONG.--THE FIRST RECORDERS OF BARDISM.--ITS FIRST SYSTEMATIZERS.--THEIR REGULATIONS.--MODE OF INSCRIBING THE PRIMARY LETTERS.--ORIGIN OF THEIR FORM AND SOUND.--THE THREE MENWS.
Pray, who was the first that made a vocal song in Cymraeg?

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« Reply #130 on: October 22, 2009, 01:18:59 pm »

Hu the Mighty, 1 the man who first brought the Cymry into the Isle of Britain; and he made the song to be a memorial of what happened to the nation of the Cymry from the age of ages. And he inserted in it the praise of God for what the Cymry had received at His hand, by way of protection and deliverance, also the sciences and regulations of the nation of the Cymry. It was from that song that instruction in vocal song, and the understanding of just memorials, were first obtained. After that came Tydain, father of Awen, 2 who improved the sciences and art of vocal song, and reduced it to an artistic system, that it might be the more easily learned, understood, and remembered, and be the more pleasantly recited and listened to.

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« Reply #131 on: October 22, 2009, 01:19:08 pm »

Pray, who were they that first preserved the memory and sciences of Bardism, and gave instruction in wisdom?

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« Reply #132 on: October 22, 2009, 01:19:17 pm »

The Gwyddoniaid, namely, the sages of the nation of the Cymry; they preserved the memory in vocal song of the sciences and wisdom of Bardism, and gave instruction in them; nevertheless the sciences of the Gwyddoniaid possessed neither privilege nor license, except by courtesy--neither system nor chair. 3




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« Reply #133 on: October 22, 2009, 01:19:26 pm »

Who were the first that conferred system and chair on Bards and Bardism, and on Poets and vocal song?

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« Reply #134 on: October 22, 2009, 01:19:38 pm »

The three primary Bards, namely, Plennydd, Alawn, and Gwron, 1 who lived in the time of Prydain, son of Aedd the Great, and in the time of Dyvnvarth ap Prydain, his son. That is, they devised a Chair and Gorsedd, and regulated teachers and aspirants, and pupilage; and introduced instruction in sciences, and fixed and just memorials in respect of the knowledge of Bardism, and vocal song, with its appurtenances, and in respect of usages, that, of justice, and according to the requirements of wisdom, were suitable to Bards and Poets, as would be most requisite for the benefit and praise of the nation of the Cymry.

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