EINION ap GWGON
(
c.
1215
),
one of the poets of the Age of the Princes
.
Only one poem by him is extant, an eulogy to
prince
Llywelyn ap Iorwerth
(
Llywelyn the Great
)
. This is found in
Hendreg. MS.
and in transcripts of it (
B.M. MS. 14, 869
,
Llanst. MS. 31
,
Pen. MS. 119
). It was published in
Myv. Arch.
, i, 320;
Anwyl
,
The Poetry of the Gogynfeirdd
, 113;
Llawysgrif Hendregadredd, 50-4
; and also in part, in
Stephens
,
The Literature of the Kymry
, 155-7.
Bibliography:
-
Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion
Cymru
i, 250;
-
Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of
Eminent Welshmen
, 1852
;
-
Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion
Cymru
, 1870
;
-
‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27
vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77
;
-
A History of Wales
, 691.
Author:
Gildas Tibbott M.A., (1900-79), Aberystwyth
