Llygad Gŵr (
fl.
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1268 or 1258 – c. 1293,) was a
Welsh-language poet in the court of
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.
His surviving works are a sequence of five
awdlau for Llywelyn and four poems that praise the dynasty of
Powys Fadog.
In his poetry, he envisions
Wales
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as a single united nation with Llywelyn as its head and supreme power: "the true king of Wales". This has been called "the most 'nationalist' poetry in Welsh before the days of
Glyn Dwr".
[Lloyd 1959]
Sources
*
*J. Lloyd-Jones, 'The Court Poets of the Welsh Princes', ''Proceedings of the British Academy'', 1948
*
P. I. Lynch, 'Court Poetry, Power and Politics' in ''The Welsh King and His Court'' pp. 167–190, edited by T. M. Charles-Edwards, Morfydd E. Owen and Paul Russell, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2000.
References
External links
Llygad Gŵr ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''
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13th-century Welsh poets
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
Year of birth uncertain