Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen (fl. c. 1350–1390) was a

Welsh language Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut P ...

court poet from

Merionethshire , HQ= Dolgellau , Government= Merionethshire County Council (1889-1974) , Origin= , Status= , Start= 1284 , End= , Code= MER , CodeName= ...

, in the north west of Wales. Llywelyn is credited, along with

Iolo Goch Iolo Goch (c. 1320 – c. 1398) (meaning ''Iolo the Red'' in English) was a medieval Welsh bard who composed poems addressed to Owain Glyndŵr, among others. Lineage Iolo was the son of Ithel Goch ap Cynwrig ap Iorwerth Ddu ap Cynwrig Ddew ...

, with introducing and popularizing the

cywydd The cywydd (; plural ) is one of the most important metrical forms in traditional Welsh poetry (cerdd dafod). There are a variety of forms of the cywydd, but the word on its own is generally used to refer to the ("long-lined couplet") as it is b ...

metre in the north of Wales. Llywelyn is particularly noted for his

elegy An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead. However, according to ''The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy'', "for all of its pervasiveness ... the 'elegy' remains remarkably ill defined: sometime ...

to his dead mistress, '' Marwnad Lleucu Llwyd'' (Elegy for Lleucu Llwyd).

Bibliography

*Dafydd Johnston (ed.), ''Gwaith Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen'' (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 1998)

External links

The tragic tale of Llywelyn and Lleucu:
Lleucu Llwyd and Dolgelynen
Welsh-language poets 14th-century Welsh poets Year of birth uncertain Year of death unknown People from Merionethshire {{Wales-writer-stub