The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen
Written by Gillian Clarke
Narrated by Gillian Clarke and Ceri Wyn Jones
4/5
()
About this audiobook
The 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 hundred laments to the named characters who fell, and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics. Former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke animates this historical epic with a modern musicality, making it live in the language of today and underscoring that, in a world still beset by the misery of war, Aneirin's lamentation is not done.
Gillian Clarke
Gillian Clarke was National Poet of Wales 2008-16, and co-edited The Map and the Clock: A Laureate’s Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland (Faber, 2016) with Carol Ann Duffy. Her numerous books of poetry include Collected Poems (1997), Five Fields (1998), Making the Beds for the Dead (2004) and Ice (2012) and Zoology (2017), all from Carcanet, and Selected Poems (2016) from Picador. She received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award, in 2012, the first woman to receive the latter.
Related to The Gododdin
Related audiobooks
The Faded Map: Lost Kingdoms of Scotland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced, and Misunderstood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fall of the Nibelungs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The First Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anglo-Saxons at War: 800-1066 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beowulf Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wisdom of the Cymry: Translated from the Welsh Triads Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cantre'r Gwaelod: The Mysterious Legend of the Ancient Sunken Kingdom Known as the Welsh Atlantis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5?thelfl?d: The Lady of the Mercians Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mabinogion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Norman Conquest in English History: Volume I: A Broken Chain? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMabinogion, the Four Branches Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ancient Scottish Tales: Traditional, Romantic & Legendary Folk and Fairy Tales of the Highlands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Culloden: The History and Archaeology of the Last Clan Battle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWinters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Le Morte D'Arthur: Volume 1 Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Lia Fáil: The Story of Scotland's Sacred Stone of Destiny Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Scotland: A History from Earliest Times Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elidor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Doom That Came to Sarnath (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Scáthach: Warrior Queen from the Isle of Skye Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jason and the Golden Fleece: The Argonautica Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Poetry For You
This Other Eden Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spirits in Bondage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gift of Rumi: Experiencing the Wisdom of the Sufi Master Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Metamorphoses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Milk and Honey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Temple Folk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Raven and Other Poems: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Citizen: An American Lyric Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Raven Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strength In Our Scars Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beowulf: A New Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inferno of Dante Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5W. B. Yeats: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related categories
Reviews for The Gododdin
4 ratings0 reviews