HYWEL FOEL ap GRIFFRI ap PWYLL GWYDDEL
(
fl.
c.
1240-1300
), a
poet
,
whose only remaining work consists of the two
awdlau
in praise of
Owain (Goch) ap Gruffydd
(q.v.)
, and composed during
Owain
's long imprisonment by his brother,
prince
Llywelyn ap Gruffydd
. No details of his life are known.
Bibliography:
-
Llsgr. Hendreg.Llawysgrif Hendregadredd (N.L.W. MS. 6680). Writers
refer to page numers in the manuscript itself and not to the
edition printed in 1933 by the University of Wales Press
Board. See also ,
1933
(23b, 24);
-
The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
, , and
, 3
vols., 1801–7; another edn. in 1 vol., 1870. Some contributors
have used the original edition, citing it by volume and page,
others the reprint, citing it by page and column
,
1870
, 266, 267;
-
Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a
bywgraphyddol
, 1875
;
-
J. Davies
,
Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ,
dictionarium duplex
, 1632
;
-
Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of
Eminent Welshmen
, 1852
;
-
Edward Jones
,
Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh
Bards…
, 1784; another ed., 1794
;
-
J. E. Lloyd
,
A History of Wales
, i, 742.
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
