LLWYD, YR USTUS (fl. 14th century), poet

Name: Llwyd
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Griffith Milwyn Griffiths

Poems by him are found in Jesus Coll. MS. 1, Peniarth MS 118 , and NLW MS 4973B . His metres and his poems, as early examples of the compositions of the clêr or wandering poets are discussed by T. Gwynn Jones in Zeitschrift fûr Celtische Philologie, xvii, 167-76. See also G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 113 and 134.

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Published date: 1959

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