

Transcribed from the 1897 Welsh National Press Company edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

                          [Picture: Book cover]

            [Picture: Glasynys, The Birthplace of Ellis Wynne]





                               THE VISIONS
                                  OF THE
                              SLEEPING BARD


                                  BEING

                              ELLIS WYNNE’S

                     “_Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc_”

                              TRANSLATED BY

                         ROBERT GWYNEDDON DAVIES

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                LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARHSALL & CO., LIMITED.

           CARNARVON: THE WELSH NATIONAL PRESS COMPANY, LIMITED

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                                MDCCCXCVII

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                                    TO
                     PROFESSOR JOHN RHŶS, M.A., LL.D.
                    PRINCIPAL OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD
                                   AND
                 VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
                             OF NORTH WALES,
                               IN TOKEN OF
               HIS DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP AND UNRIVALLED
                                 SERVICES
                                    TO
                            CELTIC LITERATURE
                             THIS TRANSLATION
                                    IS
                          RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED




PREFACE


AT the National Eisteddfod of 1893, a prize was offered by Mr. Lascelles
Carr, of the _Western Mail_, for the best translation of Ellis Wynne’s
_Vision of Hell_.  The Adjudicators (Dean Howell and the Rev. G. Hartwell
Jones, M.A.), awarded the prize for the translation which is comprised in
the present volume.  The remaining Visions were subsequently rendered
into English, and the complete work is now published in the hope that it
may prove useful to those readers, who, being unacquainted with the Welsh
language, yet desire to obtain some knowledge of its literature.

My best thanks are due to the