Bedo Brwynllys (fl. c. 1460) was a

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Life

He lived in the

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area near

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. Bedo was a love poet in the tradition of

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whose work is sometimes mis-assigned to

Bedo Aeddren Bedo Aeddren (fl. c. 1500) was a Welsh language poet from the area that is now Denbighshire, north-east Wales. Bedo composed poems on themes of love and nature in the tradition of Dafydd ap Gwilym and other cywyddwyr. References Gwyn Williams, "T ...

. He composed an Elegy for Sir

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. He also composed some flyting poems between himself and

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and

Ieuan Deulwyn Ieuan Deulwyn (fl. c. 1460) was a Welsh language poet or bard. Poetry A collection of fifty of the poems of Ieuan Deulwyn were published in 1909 under the auspices of the Bangor Welsh Manuscripts Society, thanks to Ifor Williams.Ifor Williams, ...

, two contemporaries, and some surviving religious poetry has also been ascribed to him.

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References

* 15th-century Welsh poets {{Wales-poet-stub