HYWEL ab EINION LLYGLIW (fl. c. 1330-1370), poet

and uncle to Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion Llygliw. Nothing is known about him, but his love poem addressed to Myfanwy Fychan of Castell Dinas Bran, Llangollen, is preserved in NLW MS 1553A (275), NLW MS 4973B (369b), NLW MS 6209E (216), and published in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales ; for an English translation see T. Pennant, Tours in Wales. The poet is named Hywel ab Einion of Maelor in the first and last of the manuscripts; and, according to the first, a parchment copy of the poem was found in one of the castle walls. His connection with Myfanwy Fychan is the theme of J. Ceiriog Hughes's eisteddfodic poem, 'Myfanwy Fychan.'

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
• Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
• The Myvyrian archaiology of Wales (Denbigh 1870), 339
• William Owen Pughe, The Cambrian Biography (1803)
• Thomas Pennant, A Tour (Tours) in [North] Wales, 1883, i, 362
• H. Lewis, Thomas Roberts, Ifor Williams (eds), Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac Eraill, 1350–1450 (Bangor 1925), lxxviii

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q13129213

Published date: 1959

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