Keltologisches Kolloquium: David Callander Prophecy and Voice: the Middle Welsh Dialogue of Merlin and and his sister Gwenddydd and its afterlife in the 16th century This paper illuminates the latest developments of the “Merlin Project”, a project led by Welsh scholars to study in detail and edit all Welsh poems in the voice of Merlin up to the year 1800. Seven Middle Welsh prophetic poems survive which are at least partially in the voice of Merlin. They are an important source for the Merlin legend and have an interesting and not yet fully explained relationship to the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth. This paper studies in particular the little-known dialogue between Merlin and his sister Gwenddydd, in the earliest manuscripts and also as part of the early modern Chronicle of Elis Gruffydd. https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/keltologie/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungsarchiv/keltologisches-kolloquium-david-callander https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/keltologie/@@site-logo/IAAC_LOGO_RGB.jpg

Prophecy and Voice: the Middle Welsh Dialogue of Merlin and and his sister Gwenddydd and its afterlife in the 16th century

This paper illuminates the latest developments of the “Merlin Project”, a project led by Welsh scholars to study in detail and edit all Welsh poems in the voice of Merlin up to the year 1800. Seven Middle Welsh prophetic poems survive which are at least partially in the voice of Merlin. They are an important source for the Merlin legend and have an interesting and not yet fully explained relationship to the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth. This paper studies in particular the little-known dialogue between Merlin and his sister Gwenddydd, in the earliest manuscripts and also as part of the early modern Chronicle of Elis Gruffydd.