Y Pren ar y Bryn

Cân gronnus, gyda’r ychwanegiadau i bob pennill yn cael ei chanu yn gyflymach ac yn gyflymach. Casgliwyd y gân yn ardal Ffestiniog.

The family [of songs] is often called The Tree in the Wood or The Everlasting Circle, and is sung to a good few different tunes and in a good few different languages, but the basic content and the circular form doesn’t seem to vary all that much. As we know it now, it doesn’t mean a great deal, but essentially the same content also turns up in Asia (for example), where it has been used in Zen parables and the like. That doesn’t mean that it’s ever had any particularly deep meaning in Europe, but the human fascination with such things certainly goes back a long way.

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