Draenog: Cofia Ddyn

Cofia Ddyn...

Breconshire
Cardiganshire
Carmarthenshire
Glamorgan
Monmouthshire
Pembrokeshire

Sir Aberteifi
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Sir Fynwy
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This page gives you access to 400 examples of a traditional folk poem commonly found on Welsh gravestones. It corresponds broadly to the English folk poem:

Remember man as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so shall you be
Prepare O man to follow me

For a discussion of these examples, see:

GM Awbery 'Cofia ddyn wrth fyned heibio.' Llên Cymru 25(2000), 46-74.
and
GM Awbery 'Variation in a traditional Welsh commemorative verse: the role of syntactic ambiguity.' Studia Celtica 42(2009), 175-200.

Mae'r dudalen hon yn cyflwyno 400 enghraifft o bennill traddodiadol a geir ar gerrig beddau yng Nghymru. Mae'n cyfateb i'r pennill traddodiadol Saesneg hwn:

Remember man as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so shall you be
Prepare O man to follow me

Am drafodaeth ar yr enghreifftiau hyn, gweler:

GM Awbery 'Cofia ddyn wrth fyned heibio.' Llên Cymru 25(2000), 46-74.
a
GM Awbery 'Variation in a traditional Welsh commemorative verse: the role of syntactic ambiguity.' Studia Celtica 42(2009), 175-200.

last updated 07.11.09