Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

A.T.E. Matonis. "Traditions of Panegyric in Welsh Poetry: The Heroic and the Chivalric." Speculum, 53:667-87.

A history of the development of Welsh panegyric in three stages of bards: (a) the Cynfeirdd of the sixth century, (b) the Gogynfeirdd (ca. 1100-1350), and (c) the Cywyddwyr of the fourteenth century. Argues that it is likely that the first were oral poets, that the second carried on the traditions of eulogy and elegy, and that the third group "incorporated courtly and heraldic features" (667) that greatly changed the genres.
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