Topic summary
Cynfeirdd
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Medieval Welsh literature.
The Welsh language became distinct from other dialects of Old British sometime between AD 400 and 700; the earliest surviving literature in Welsh is poetry dating from this period. The poetic tradition represented in the work of "Y Cynfeirdd" ('the early poets'), as they are known, then survives for over a thousand years to the work of the Poets of the Nobility in the 16th century.