Siôn ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. c.1490-1532) was a
Welsh language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic languages, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales by about 18% of the population, by some in England, and in (the Welsh c ...
poet.
Siôn ap Hywel composed poems on themes of love and religion. He is noted for his elegy on the death of fellow Welsh poet
Tudur Aled
Tudur Aled (c. 1465 – 1525) was a late medieval Welsh poet, born in Llansannan, Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych). He is regarded as a master of cynghanedd.
Beginnings
Tudur Aled was born c. 1465 in Llansannan, in what is now Denbighshire. It is l ...
, in which he mentioned the 'Dull Edern Dafod Aur' in the elegy written by
Davod Aur Edeyrn, (Edern Of The Golden Tongue) a dosbarth (arrangement or grammar) of the orthography of the Welsh language and of the form of words.
References
* A. Cynfael Lake (ed.), ''Gwaith Siôn ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan'' (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 1999).
Welsh-language poets
16th-century Welsh poets
16th-century Welsh male writers
Year of birth uncertain
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