Historia Gruffud vab Kenan explained

The Historia Gruffud Vab Kenan, also known as The History of Gruffudd ap Cynan, is a medieval Welsh text about the king of Gwynedd Gruffudd ap Cynan. The text was written in Middle Welsh but was translated from the original text Vita Griffini Filii Conani which was written in Latin and was written sometime during the lifetime of Owain Gwynedd, the successor of Gruffudd ap Cynan. Until recently it was believed that the Vita Griffini Filii Conani text had been lost, but recently the scholar Paul Russell has shown that the Latin text of the History of Gruffudd ap Cynan found in the Peniarth manuscript 434E preserves the original Latin text rather than being translation into Latin of the Middle Welsh text Historia Gruffud vab Kenan.^[1]

References

Sources

• The history of Grufydd ap Cynan Jones, A (1910)
• The history of Gruffydd ap Cynan; the Welsh text Jones, A (1910)
• The history of Gruffudd ap Cynan MaryJones.us
• Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan (Welsh version)
• Maund, K. L. (1996). Gruffudd ap Cynan: A collaborative biography. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press.
• A Mediaeval Prince of Wales: The Life of Gruffudd Ap Cynan. Evans, D. (1990)
• Rhys Jones, Medieval biographies and the geography of power: the Historia Gruffud vab Kenan, Journal of Historical Geography, Volume 30, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 459-469, ISSN 0305-7488,

External links

• Historia Gruffud vab Kenan Codecs

Notes and References

1. https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/vita-griffini-filii-conani/ Vita Griffini Filii Conani