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Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...

court poet A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ...

Einion ap Gwalchmai ( fl. 1202–1223) was the son of the poet

Gwalchmai ap Meilyr Gwalchmai ap Meilyr ( fl. 1130 – 1180) was a Welsh-language court poet, connected with Trewalchmai in Anglesey. He was one of the earliest of the ''Gogynfeirdd'' ("less early poets") or ''Beirdd y Tywysogion'' ("Poets of the Princes"). He compos ...

and brother of the poet

Meilyr ap Gwalchmai Meilyr ap Gwalchmai (fl. second half of the 12th century) was the son of the Welsh poet Gwalchmai ap Meilyr Gwalchmai ap Meilyr (fl. 1130 – 1180) was a Welsh-language court poet, connected with Trewalchmai in Anglesey. He was one of the earlie ...

. He lived 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 ...

. Some lines of a praise poem to

Llywelyn ab Iorwerth Llywelyn the Great ( cy, Llywelyn Fawr, ; full name Llywelyn mab Iorwerth; c. 117311 April 1240) was a King of Gwynedd in north Wales and eventually " Prince of the Welsh" (in 1228) and "Prince of Wales" (in 1240). By a combination of war and d ...

, Prince of

, have survived, together with three impressive religious

awdl In Welsh poetry, an ''awdl'' () is a long poem in strict metre (i.e. ''cynghanedd''). Originally, an ''awdl'' could be a relatively short poem unified by its use of a single end-rhyme (the word is related to ''odl'', "rhyme"), using cynghanedd; ...

au (odes). :''Amser Mai, maith dydd, neud rhydd rhoddi'', :''Neud coed nad ceithiw, ceinlliw celli''. :''Neud llafar adar, neud gwâr gweilgi'', :''Neud gwaeddgreg gwaneg gwynt yn edwi'', :''Neud erfai ddoniau goddau gweddi'', :''Neud argel dawel, nid mau dewi''.

Bibliography

*J.E. Caerwyn-Williams (ed.), ''Gwaith Meilyr Brydydd a'i ddisgynyddion'' (Cardiff, 1994). Welsh-language poets 13th-century Welsh poets {{Wales-writer-stub