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Celtic - Spoils of Annwn - 08
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013897
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Preiddeu Annwn: The Spoils of Annwn
by: Sarah Higley (Translator) from: The Camelot Project 2007 [The following is the text (and translation) of a poem taken from the fourteenth-century Llyfr Taliesin]I
VIII
53. Myneych dychnut val bleidawr. |
53. Monks pack together like young wolves |
54. o gyfranc udyd ae gwidyanhawr. |
54. from an encounter with lords who know. |
55. ny wdant pan yscar deweint agwawr. |
55. They do not know when midnight and dawn divide. |
56. neu wynt pwy hynt pwy yrynnawd. |
56. Nor wind, what its course, what its onrush, |
57. py va diua py tir aplawd. |
57. what place it ravages, what region it strikes. |
58. bet sant yn diuant abet allawr. |
58. The grave of the saint is hidden (or: lost, vanishing, in the Otherworld), both grave and ground (or: champion). |
59. Golychaf y wledic pendefic mawr. |
59. I praise the Lord, great prince, |
60. na bwyf trist crist am gwadawl. |
60. that I be not sad; Christ endows me. |