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An Edition of the Welsh Merlin Poetry

威尔士梅林诗歌版

基本信息

批准号：
AH/W000717/1
负责人：
Dylan Foster Evans
金额：
$ 91.23万
依托单位：
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW000717%2F1
关键词：
Edition Welsh Merlin Poetry

项目摘要

This project will create an online edition and translation of the Welsh poetry attributed to Merlin surviving in manuscripts before 1800. We will produce new, detailed studies of the relationships between these poems and the broader Merlin tradition, and of how the Welsh poems develop over time. The corpus to be edited consists of c. 102 poems of c. 4450 lines in total in c. 519 manuscript copies. This includes seven major early poems (c. 980 lines) extant in medieval manuscripts, as well as c. 95 later poems surviving from the early modern period, which often adapt and echo the earlier verse.Welsh poetry is an important source for the internationally renowned Merlin legend. Geoffrey of Monmouth, who spread the Arthurian tradition throughout Europe, appears to have drawn on Welsh poetic sources. Despite their importance, the Welsh Merlin poems remain largely unedited. This means researchers in Arthurian studies are currently unable to access these works, let alone assess their significance in a broader international context. By editing all this poetry for the first time and making it freely available, this project will enable Arthurianists to engage with these texts in detail. The new diachronic and comparative studies undertaken in the project will also greatly advance the field. The public and the education sector will have unprecedented access to these fascinating works, and a section of the edition website aimed at schools will highlight Merlin traditions and their relevance to Wales, Britain, and beyond.The poetic corpus will be presented in a freely-accessible online edition. This will include the edited texts with manuscript transcriptions and corresponding images (served via IIIF technology), introductions, commentary, textual notes, and translations, ensuring maximum accessibility. We will make the templates and models used to create our text edition platform openly available to ensure that such editorial projects are easier to produce in future and that this project has a productive legacy.In addition to producing this edition, the project will study the links between the Welsh Merlin poems and broader Arthurian tradition. We will produce a new comparative study of Geoffrey of Monmouth's work (especially his Vita Merlini) and early Welsh Merlin poems, illuminating the relationship between them. This comparative study is crucial in enabling scholars to view the Welsh poems in a broader European context and to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, bringing the Welsh texts to the core of international Arthurian studies.As well as being cross-cultural, our approach will be cross-period. Producing this edition, which is innovative in encompassing both the earliest Merlin poetry and later verse, will enable us to advance research into how Merlin verse developed over time and was shaped by contemporary interests, as when deployed by early modern Welsh historians. It will also revolutionize approaches to Welsh literary history, highlighting how early Welsh poetry develops into early modern "free verse", thereby creating new avenues for teaching and studying Welsh literature across traditional period boundaries.We will hold numerous public outreach events, working with schools and heritage organizations. We aim to impact school curricula by highlighting to schools and teachers how the project resources could be used by them and how certain texts could be deployed for the first time in the Welsh A-level syllabus. We aim more broadly to change public perceptions of Merlin by highlighting his close connections with Wales and Welsh literature, including sites like Carmarthen (traditionally interpreted as 'Merlin's Fortress') and the Brittonic 'Old North' of northern England and southern Scotland.The project will provide significant new advances in the study of Welsh literature and Arthurian tradition, reframing the field of Arthurian studies and enabling new interdisciplinary research opportunities.

这个项目将创建一个在线版本和翻译的威尔士诗歌，这些诗歌被认为是由梅林在1800年以前的手稿中幸存下来的。我们将对这些诗歌与更广泛的梅林传统之间的关系，以及威尔士诗歌如何随着时间的推移而发展，进行新的、详细的研究。要编辑的语料库包括约102首诗，共约4450行，约519份手稿。这包括中世纪手稿中现存的七首主要的早期诗歌（约980行），以及近代早期幸存下来的约95首后期诗歌，这些诗歌经常改编和呼应早期的诗歌。威尔士诗歌是国际知名的梅林传奇的重要来源。蒙茅斯的杰弗里将亚瑟王的传统传播到整个欧洲，他似乎借鉴了威尔士诗歌的来源。尽管它们很重要，但威尔士的梅林诗歌大部分都没有经过编辑。这意味着亚瑟王研究的研究人员目前无法访问这些作品，更不用说在更广泛的国际背景下评估它们的意义了。通过首次编辑所有这些诗歌并使其免费提供，该项目将使亚瑟王学者能够详细地参与这些文本。该项目所进行的新的历时性和比较研究也将极大地推动该领域的发展。公众和教育部门将有前所未有的机会接触到这些迷人的作品，网站上针对学校的部分将突出梅林的传统及其与威尔士、英国和其他地区的关系。诗歌语料库将以免费的在线版本呈现。这将包括带有手稿转录和相应图像的编辑文本（通过IIIF技术提供）、介绍、评论、文本注释和翻译，以确保最大程度的可访问性。我们将公开提供用于创建文本编辑平台的模板和模型，以确保此类编辑项目在未来更容易产生，并且该项目具有富有成效的遗产。除了制作这一版本，该项目还将研究威尔士梅林诗歌与亚瑟王传统之间的联系。我们将对杰弗里·蒙茅斯（Geoffrey of Monmouth）的作品（尤其是他的《维塔·梅林》（Vita Merlini））和早期威尔士梅林诗歌进行新的比较研究，阐明它们之间的关系。这种比较研究对于使学者能够在更广泛的欧洲背景下看待威尔士诗歌并跨越传统学科界限至关重要，将威尔士文本带入国际亚瑟王研究的核心。不仅是跨文化的，我们的方法也是跨时期的。制作这个版本，创新地涵盖了最早的梅林诗歌和后来的诗歌，将使我们能够推进研究梅林诗歌是如何随着时间的推移而发展的，是如何被当代的兴趣所塑造的，就像早期现代威尔士历史学家所使用的那样。它还将彻底改变威尔士文学史的方法，突出早期威尔士诗歌如何发展成早期现代“自由诗”，从而为跨越传统时期界限的威尔士文学教学和研究创造新的途径。我们将与学校和文物组织合作，举办大量的公众宣传活动。我们的目标是通过向学校和教师强调如何使用项目资源以及如何在威尔士A-level教学大纲中首次部署某些文本来影响学校课程。我们的目标是更广泛地改变公众对梅林的看法，通过强调他与威尔士和威尔士文学的密切联系，包括卡马森（传统上被解释为“梅林的堡垒”）和布里顿的英格兰北部和苏格兰南部的“旧北”。该项目将为威尔士文学和亚瑟王传统的研究提供重要的新进展，重塑亚瑟王研究领域，并使新的跨学科研究机会成为可能。