IEUAN BRYDYDD HIR HYNAF
(
fl.
c.
1450
),
poet
;
said to have been a native of
Ardudwy, Mer.
No details regarding his life are known, but many of his poems remain in manuscript, and at least two of them have been printed. Included in his work are two poems to God, one to God and the
Virgin
Mary
, another to
S.
Winefred
, one written by the poet in his old age, a begging poem, and two poems of controversy, or
ymryson
, addressed to the poet,
Tudur Penllyn
(q.v.)
.
Bibliography:
-
Jones
and
Lewis
,
Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau
, and
,
1928
;
-
Bodewryd MS. at the National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth
1;
-
Brogyntyn MSS. at the National
Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
1, 4, 5;
-
Cwrtmawr Manuscripts at the National Library of
Wales, Aberystwyth
114, 206, 244;
-
Gwysaney MS. at the National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth
25;
-
Plas Nantglyn MS. at the National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth
2;
-
National Library of Wales
Manuscripts
435, 436, 695, 722, 1024, 1247, 3487, 6471, 6499, 7191, 9166, 11816, 13071;
-
Sotheby Manuscript at the National Library of
Wales, Aberystwyth
C. 2;
-
Swansea Manuscripts
2, 3;
-
Y Brython
,
1861
, iv, 35 — the second poem is incorrectly attributed to
Evan Evans
here as in the
1773
Almanac W. Hywel
, Llanidloes,
1773
, Llanidloes;
-
‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27
vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77
;
-
Edward Davies
,
Traethawd ar Enwogion Swydd Feirion, hen a
diweddar, yn gelfyddydwyr, beirdd, gwyddonwyr,
pregethwyr
, Caernarfon, 1870
,
1870
;
-
J. Davies
,
Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ,
dictionarium duplex
, 1632
;
-
Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of
Eminent Welshmen
, 1852
;
Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion
Cymru
, 1870
;
-
William Owen Pughe
,
The Cambrian Biography
(later ) , 1803
;
-
[
Abraham Jenkins
, ‘The Works of Tudur Penllyn and Ieuan Brydydd Hir Hynaf’ (Univ. of Wales, M.A. Dissertation,
1921
).]
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
