An Edition of the Welsh Merlin Poetry

这个项目将创建一个在线版本和翻译的威尔士诗歌归因于梅林生存在手稿在1800年之前。我们将产生新的，详细的研究这些诗歌和更广泛的梅林传统之间的关系，以及如何威尔士诗歌随着时间的推移发展。待编辑的语料库由C. C的102首诗共4450条C线。519份手稿。这包括七个主要的早期诗歌（C。980线）现存的中世纪手稿，以及C。现代早期留存下来的95首后期诗歌，这些诗歌经常改编和呼应早期的诗句。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的诗歌资源。尽管其重要性，威尔士梅林诗歌仍然在很大程度上未经编辑。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重要性了。通过第一次编辑所有这些诗歌并使其免费提供，这个项目将使亚瑟主义者能够详细地参与这些文本。在该项目中进行的新的历时性和比较研究也将大大推进该领域。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，针对学校的版本网站的一部分将突出梅林传统及其与威尔士，英国和其他地区的相关性。诗歌语料库将以免费在线版本呈现。这将包括经过编辑的文本，包括手稿翻译和相应的图像（通过IIIF技术提供），介绍，评论，文本注释和翻译，以确保最大的可访问性。我们将公开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制作，并且该项目具有富有成效的遗产。除了制作此版本，该项目还将研究威尔士梅林诗歌与更广泛的亚瑟王传统之间的联系。我们将对蒙茅斯的杰弗里的作品（特别是他的《梅里尼的生活》）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。这种比较研究是至关重要的，使学者们在更广泛的欧洲背景下看待威尔士诗歌，并跨越传统的学科界限，使威尔士文本的核心国际亚瑟王研究。制作这个版本，这是创新的，包括最早的梅林诗歌和后来的诗句，将使我们能够推进研究梅林诗歌如何随着时间的推移而发展，并由当代利益塑造，如早期现代威尔士历史学家部署时。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为早期现代“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级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，突出他与威尔士和威尔士文学的密切联系，包括像卡马森这样的网站（传统上被解释为“梅林的堡垒”）和英国北方英格兰和苏格兰南部的“老北方”。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，重建亚瑟王研究领域，并使新的跨学科研究机会。

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.