Dafydd Nanmor (
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1450 – 1490) was a
Welsh language poet born at
Nanmor
Nantmor is a hamlet which lies about 1½ miles to the south of the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd, Wales.
The current spelling of the name Nantmor is more modernmost old documentfrom the 16th to the 18th century record the name as Nanmor.
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(or Nantmor), in
Gwynedd
Gwynedd (; ) is a county and preserved county (latter with differing boundaries; includes the Isle of Anglesey) in the north-west of Wales. It shares borders with Powys, Conwy County Borough, Denbighshire, Anglesey over the Menai Strait, and C ...
, north-west
Wales. He is one of the most significant poets of this period.
It is said that he was exiled to south Wales for overstepping the mark in his poetry (he sang a poem to a married local woman) and spent the rest of his life outside Gwynedd. His work was seen to have particular significance by the twentieth-century critic
Saunders Lewis. Lewis saw him a poet of philosophy who praised the ideal ruler as he praised his patrons who saw that within the Welsh tradition all who had privilege and power also had responsibilities towards family, community and nation.
It is believed that
Rhys Nanmor was a bardic student of his.
Bibliography
*Thomas Roberts and
Ifor Williams, ''The Poetical Works of Dafydd Nanmor'' (Cardiff, 1923)
External links
Biography of Dafydd Nanmor
Welsh-language poets
People from Gwynedd
15th-century Welsh poets
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