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  • The Welsh Dadolwch and Princely Favour

    The Welsh Dadolwch and Princely Favour

    By Kit Treadwell (ct578@cam.ac.uk)  Dating from the middle of the twelfth century to the middle of the thirteenth, seven Welsh poems bear the title element dadolwch (appeasement, reconciliation).[1] These seven poems — unique enough to bear their own genre term — may well belie a larger but inextant tradition. Regardless, working with what we have reveals the pitfalls…