Speaker: Gretchen Kern Title: Syllables or Intervals? Welsh cynghanedd lusg rhymes Date/Time: 1 Dec. (M), 5:00 – 6:30 Location: 32D-461
This talk will present my data and some preliminary analysis on my ongoing work on cynghanedd lusg, a type of line-internal, word-internal rhyme in Welsh poetry, based on a corpus of the works of Dafydd ap Gwilym. In these rhymes, the stressed penultimate vowel of a polysyllabic line-final word (and some number of following consonants) will correspond to the final vowel and any following consonants of a word earlier in the line.
(1) Ganed o’i fodd er goddef (Credo, line 25)
In many examples, the rhyme domain consists of the entire interval (even in consonant clusters) but some will have unanswered consonants in the line-final word:
2) a. Mi a wn blas o lasgoed (Merch Gyndyn, line 31) b. I waered yn grwm gwmpas, (Gwahodd Dyddgu, line25) c. ‘Nychlyd fardd, ni’th gâr harddfun, (Cyngor y Bioden, line65)
This is similar, but not exactly like skaldic rhyme, where the unanswered consonants appear in the word on the left (3c):
(3) a. hann rekkir lið bannat (from Háttatal, by Sturluson) b. ungr stillir sá, milli (via Ryan 2010:5) c. Gandvíkr, jǫfurr, landi