This charter is done in the cywydd style of Welsh poetry popular in the 14th century. Cywydd poems were poems of praise of worthy persons. A bard who composed and performed cywydd was known as a cywyddwyr. Cywydd poems were composed of rhyming couplets, where each line had exactly seven syllables. I was able to do this in English and for everything but the date at the end. They also had a very complicated internal structure (“cynghanedd”) which, IMHO, cannot be mimicked in English due to the significant differences in the usage of consonants. I did not even attempt this.
The words for the herald:
Hearken, gentles good and fair.
Nobles all: attend this prayer.
Kjartan, king, commands your will;
Sha’ya, queen, who hearts bestill;
Words They have for you to hear.
Nobles, gentles, gather near.
Wise council have They received,
Of one whose arts are conceived
From Beauty wed to high Skill.
In woolens, linens, tweeds, twill,
Silk, and cotton she weaves gold
As they did in days of old.
Tales of yore she illustrates;
Through stitchery demonstrates
Intarsia best’ary
Needlework as from Faerie.
Angharat verch Reynulf hight;
Oftentimes in purple dight.
Sha’ya, queen, and Kjartan, king,
Command the Cywyddwyr sing:
Name her Mistress! Praise her name!
Let all An Tir know her fame!
The Order of the Laurel
Shall add her to their choral.
Be it known this twentieth day of July
Anno Societatis LIV, being 2019 Gregorian.
The words for the charter:
Gwrandewch, boneddigion yn dda ac yn deg.
Mae pawb yn: mynychu’r weddi hon.
Mae Kjartan, brenin, yn gorchymyn eich ewyllys;
Sha’ya, y frenhines, sydd yn calonni orau;
Geiriau Mae’n rhaid i chi eu clywed.
Mae uchelwyr, boneddigion, yn ymgynnull yn agos.
Mae Cyngor Doeth wedi derbyn,
O’r un y mae ei chelf yn cael ei greu
O Harddwch, hyd at Sgil uchel.
Mewn woolensau, llieiniau, trydar, twill,
Silk, a chotwm mae’n gwehyddu aur
Fel y gwnaethant mewn dyddiau oed.
Straeon ar yore mae’n eu darlunio;
Trwy gyfrwng gwaith cegin dangosir
Intarsia llysieuol
Gwaith nodedig fel o Faerie.
Ferch Angharat Reynulf hight;
Amtentimes mewn tynn porffor.
Sha’ya, brenhines, a Kjartan, brenin,
Gorchymyn y Cywyddwyr yn canu:
Enwch ei Feistres! Molwch ei henw!
Gadewch i An Tir wybod ei enwogrwydd!
Gorchymyn y Laurel
Bydd yn ei hychwanegu at eu corawl.
Byddwch yn hysbys yr ugeinfed diwrnod hwn o Orffennaf
Anno Societatis LIV, sef 2019 Gregorian.
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