SIR,
I AM obliged to your correspondent Meirion, for the information he
afforded me in your last Number; will he have the goodness to inform me likewise
where the Poems of Hywel, son of Owain Gwynez [1] are to be found, and if they have been translated? One I have
met with, among the valuable contents of the Cambrian Register; [2] if it be not trespassing too much on the more erudite
researches of your correspondent, perhaps a translation of some of these pieces
might be acceptable to your general readers.
B.
Jan. 5, 1797.
Notes* MS: MS has not
survived
Previously published: Monthly
Magazine, 3 (January 1797), 4 [from where the text is taken] under
pseudonym ‘B.’. New attribution to Southey. BACK [1] Hywel (d. 1170) was the illegitimate son
of Owen Gwynedd (c. 1100–1170). He died at the battle of Pentraeth on
Anglesey in North Wales. In legend, he was the half-brother of Prince
Madoc. BACK [2] See ‘Y Dewis. Hywel ab Owain ai cant.', The Cambrian Register, 3 vols (London, 1795–1818), I,
pp. 412–413. BACK |
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