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(early Welsh) Circa 7th Century
This is the earliest recorded lullaby in these islands and possibly the earliest written poem by a woman in these islands. It was sometime in the 7th century that Dinogad’s mother sang him these words in the early Welsh language of Cumbria. It was found in the margin of an ancient edition of Aneurin’s heroic poem Y Gododdin.
lyrics
Pais Dinogad, y fraith fraith;
O grwyn balaod ban wraith.
Chwîd, chwîd, chwidogaith.
Gochanwn, gochenyn’ wythgaith.
Pan elai dy dad di i helia,
Llath ar ei ysgwydd, llory yn ei law,
Ef gelwi gŵn gogyhwg:
‘Giff! Gaff! Daly, daly! Dwg, dwg!’
Ef lladdai bysg yng nghorwg
Mal ban lladd llew llywiwg.
Pan elai dy dad di i fynydd,
Dyddygai ef ben iwrch, pen gwythwch, pen hydd,
Pen grugiar fraith o fynydd,
Pen pysg o Raeadr Derwennydd.
O’r sawl a gyrhaeddai dy dad di â’i gigwain
O wythwch a llewyrn a llwynain
Nid angai oll ni fai oradain!
English translation
Dinogad’s smock, the speckled, speckled one;
I made it out of the pelts of pine-martens.
Whistle, whistle, whistle.
We’ll sing and the eight servants will sing…
When your daddy went a-hunting,
a spear on his shoulder, a cudgel in his hand,
he would call his dogs:
‘Giff! Gaff! Catch, catch! Fetch, fetch!’
He’d strike a fish in his coracle
as a lion strikes a ‘llywiwg’.
When your daddy went to the mountain
he’d bring back a roebuck, a wild boar, a stag,
a speckled grouse from the mountain,
a fish from the Waterfall of Derwennydd.
Of everything your daddy reached with his lance,
wild boar and fox and creature of the wood,
none escaped unless it had wings!
credits
from Oran Bagraidh,
track released February 2, 2019
Gwyneth Glyn: guitar, voice
MacGillivray: electric autoharp, voice
Barnaby Brown: pipes, voice
Josie Duncan: harp, voice
Lorcán Mac Mathúna: voice
Mary-Anne Roberts: clappers, voice
Katch Holmes: voice
Ben Seal: programming
One of my favorite albums ever and I listen to it all the time, every song is beautifully made and I admire the songwriting. Way Up on the Mountain wrenches my heart in the best possible way, the blending and passion of these singers is something genuinely special. feathered_fingernail
