CADWGAN DELYNOR (fl. at end of 14th cent, and beginning of the 15th cent.), musician

The following airs are attributed to him: ‘Owiai Gywydd’ (‘The Warbler's Ode’), ‘Gas gan Grythor’ (‘The Fiddler's Dislike’), ‘Crechwen Feinir’ (‘The Maiden's Laughter’), ‘Llonen Hafar’ (‘The Merry Slattern’), ‘Awen Wrli’ (‘The Reeling Muse’), ‘Awen Oleuddydd’ (‘The Daylight Muse’), ‘Oerloes Goeden’ (‘The Sapling’), ‘Cog Wenllian’ (‘Gwenllian's Cuckoo’).

It should be explained that some of the English titles are those given to the airs in much later times, and not literal translations of the Welsh.

Author

• Robert David Griffith, (1877 - 1958), Old Colwyn

Sources

• Gweirydd ap Rhys, Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 1300–1650 (1885);
• E. Jones, Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards …;
• M. O. Jones, Bywgraffiaeth Cerddorion Cymreig (1890).

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Cadwgan Delynor

Additional Links

• Wikidata: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20732683

Published date: 1959

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