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Vita Griffini filii Conani : the medieval Latin Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan

Title: Vita Griffini filii Conani : the medieval Latin Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan / edited and translated by Paul Russell.
Publication: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2005.

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Description

xiv, 217 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

"The main focus of Vita Griffini Filii Conani is on Peniarth MS 434, which has been heavily annotated and corrected. The author shows that the annotation and correction was all intended to bring the text into line with the Welsh text, and that the underlying base text cannot be a translation of the Welsh text. The text edited here is that underlying, original text, and the author argues that this text is not a translation of the Welsh text (as has always been thought) but a copy of the medieval Latin life of Gruffudd ap Cynan which predated the Middle Welsh translation." "The effect of this discovery is extremely important for many aspects of medieval history, especially for medieval Wales, but, given Gruffudd's Irish and Norse origins, it can also cast a different light on Irish and Norse relations with Wales in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The differences between the original Latin text and its Welsh translation raise all kinds of questions both for medieval historians and for students of translation literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Vita Griffini filii Conani. English & Latin

Subject

Genre/Form

History
Biographies.
Sources.
Biographies (form)
Translations (form)
Didactical prose (texts)

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-209) indexes.

Language (note)

Text in English and Latin.

Contents

Background -- The manuscripts -- The relationship between the surviving manuscripts of the Latin version -- The evidence for an original Latin life of Gruffudd ap Cynan -- Digression : the early manuscript tradition of Latin Redaction E of the Welsh laws -- The Peniarth 434 version of the life of Gruffudd ap Cynan -- The medieval Vita Griffini filii Conani -- Method of editing -- Vita Griffini filii Conani : text and translation -- App. 1. The orthography of the Welsh names in Vita Griffini filii Conani -- App. 2. Names of countries and nationalities in Vita Griffini filii Conani -- App. 3. The fair copy in BL, Cotton MS, Vitellius C.ix.

ISBN

0708318932
9780708318935

LCCN

2006372919

OCLC

ocm57380559
57380559
SCSB-14259769

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Princeton University Library