Welsh Journals

H Cgmmrntrnr, VOL. XXXII. "CARED DOETH YR ENCILION." 1922. CatraetB, and EirPas <Dmin+ A STUDY, WITH CRITICAL TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS, AND NOTES. By PROFESSOR T. GWYNN JONES, M.A. University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. A STUDY of the earlier literary material written in the territory of Powys reveals certain characteristics implying the existence of a tradition differing in some important respects from the traditions of Gwyneb and Deheubarth. The Llywarch Hen fragments, with which it is not pro- posed to deal in this paper, exhibit individualism in metre and matter, and their character suggests that they are the debris of what may have been an extensive literature, largely concerned with the struggle in the upper Severn Valley. The style of this poetry is simple and it has some qualities which, at least until we revise some of our standards, may justly be called great. Llywarch's address to the last of his sons, of whom he is said to have had twenty-four, is, for instance, quite equal to what the Spartan mother is supposed to have said to her son. 1 Cynbylan, cadw dithau y rhiw er a bel yma hebiw cudab am unmab, nid gwiw