Matheson Collection > Early Welsh gnomic poems

PREFACE
Wales, the Bodleian Library, and the British Museum,
for kindly giving me facilities for consulting their
manuscripts; and the Syndics of the University of
Wales Press for undertaking the publication. But above
all, my warmest thanks are due to Professor Ifor
Williams, who read the whole of the poems with me, for
so generously allowing me to take advantage of his time
and his profound Welsh scholarship. It would be im-
possible for me to acknowledge all the passages where,
particularly in the Notes, I am so deeply indebted to his
assistance, but any student of early Welsh Hterature will
realise that they are very many.
K. J.
Cambridge
May 1935
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