Day, Jenny (2022) The later Lives of St David in NLW MSS Peniarth 27ii, Llanstephan 34 and Peniarth 225. In: Seintiau Cymru, Sancti Cambrenses: Astudiaethau ar Seintiau Cymru / Studies in the Saints of Wales. University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, pp. 119-153. ISBN 978-1-907029-34-9
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Abstract
The Welsh Life of St David survives in several different versions, but studies on its textual history have tended to focus on the aim of discovering what form the original Welsh translation may have taken. Whilst this is clearly an important goal, it has meant that later versions of the Life, some of which contain not only paraphrased passages but also significant omissions, have been seen as having little value. This chapter, though limited in scope to only three of the later manuscript versions, seeks to redress the balance in showing that the peculiarities of these late-medieval and early-modern texts are of interest for their own sake, and that some readings might indeed be more ‘original’ than those in the earlier surviving texts.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Welsh saints Welsh hagiography St David |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History |
| Divisions: | Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies |
| Depositing User: | Jennifer Day |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2023 14:51 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2024 02:02 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2332 |
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