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poet. After serving as a yeoman in the courts of

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and

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, Siôn returned to Wales where he was tutored by

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. Siôn’s surviving work consists of poems in praise of nobility, poetic rendering of psalms, and his concerns on contemporary Welsh society.

References

*E. Roberts, Gwaith Siôn Tudur, University of Wales Press, 1981 *D.J. Bowen, ''Gwaith Gruffudd Hiraethog'', University of Wales Press, 1990 1522 births 1602 deaths Welsh-language poets 16th-century Welsh poets Year of birth uncertain {{Wales-writer-stub