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A student of mine has come across an image in an early C16 Welsh poem of playing dice with Death. I had always assumed the 'dicing with death' idea was relatively recent - has anyone come across other medieval examples? I do know the Swedish wall painting of Death playing chess but again I'd be interested in other examples of that theme.

Best wishes

Maddy

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Prof. Madeleine Gray
University of South Wales
http://www.heritagetortoise.co.uk
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'Lle taw Duw nid doeth yngan' (St Fagan, allegedly)
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