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spanning a life in words
paying tribute to Matthew Sweeney in The Irish Times
in which the style is deceptively simple
Miriam’s own Scandinavian ancestry started her on a quest to ‘find’ the nine mothers
The Gododdin by Aneirin, trans. By Gillian Clarke Jackie Kay spanning a life in wordsThe Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year AD 600. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the Angles, only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin, the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy, passed down for seven centuries before being written down in early Welsh by two medieval scribes. It is composed of one
