Dafydd Alaw () was a
Welsh
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poet about whom little is known. He is thought to have been a native of the Isle of
Anglesey
Anglesey (; cy, (Ynys) Môn ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms a principal area known as the Isle of Anglesey, that includes Holy Island across the narrow Cymyran Strait and some islets and skerries. Anglesey island ...
and a
bard
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise t ...
ic disciple of
Lewys Môn
Lewys Môn ( fl. 1485 – 1527) was a Welsh-language poet, one of the Beirdd yr Uchelwyr (Poets of the Nobility), from the ''cwmwd'' (commote) of on Ynys Môn (now Anglesey), north Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of ...
(as he commemorated him in an
elegy).
[(NLW MS. (1553) Llanst. MSS. (123, 125, and 133)] His surviving works () are mainly ''
cywyddau'' and ''
awdlau'' which praise members of some of the principal county families of Anglesey.
References
16th-century Welsh poets
Welsh male poets
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