"Na wna Glawdd Offa'n ddiffaith" ("Don't make Offa's Dyke a wasteland"): Offa's Dyke in Welsh-language texts before c.1600'

Mortimer Society Lectures

Dr Dylan Foster Evans 

Written sources for the history of Offa's Dyke are limited. This paper will consider Welsh-language engagements with the Dyke in a range of texts and genres and seek to understand how the Dyke was conceptualised both as a physical space and as a political, jurisdictional or cultural border. 

Dr Dylan Foster Evans’ main area of expertise is the poetry of the late Middle Ages. He has been a member of projects that have edited and studied the works of two of Wales’s greatest poets, Dafydd ap Gwilym and Guto’r Glyn, and has edited the works of several other poets. He is particularly interested in the relationship between poetry, identity, material culture and the environment and has published a number of critical studies in these fields. His teaching focuses primarily on medieval literature and the relationship between language and heritage. 

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