{"product_id":"9781845275099","title":"Englynion y Beddau\/Stanzas of the Graves, the","description":"Englynion y Beddau \/ The Stanzas of the Graves is a collection of verses, composed perhaps in the 9th or 10th century, enumerating the graves of traditional, mythological, and legendary heroes of early Wales: Pryderi, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, and Dylan ail Ton from The Mabinogi; Caw of Prydyn, Rhydderch Hael, and Elidyr Mwynfawr from the distant ‘Old North’; Gwalchmai, Bedwyr, Owain ab Urien, and Cynon ap Clydno from Arthurian legend, and many others. Here is even the grave of Arthur himself – or is it?\n\nBut these verses are more than a list of names and places. Cumulatively they develop into a poetic meditation on the permanence of death, as understood by a poet (or poets) living in a world where death cannot be ignored, where the bravest of warriors all share a common fate – pedryael byd \/ dan weryd ‘a four-sided world \/ under the earth’.\n\nThe places throughout Wales named in this poetry are strikingly evoked in Anthony Griffiths’ photographs of many cromlechs, standing stones, streams, mountains, and other features.","brand":"John Bollard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51996672557320,"sku":"9781845275099","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0945\/8519\/2712\/files\/9781845275099.jpg?v=1770799247","url":"https:\/\/www.ffolio.wales\/products\/9781845275099","provider":"ffolio.wales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}