GORONWY GYRIOG (fl. c. 1310-1360), an Anglesey poet

Father, apparently, of the poet Iorwerth ab y Cyriog. No details are known concerning him, but examples of his work are found in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and other manuscripts. They include an awdl addressed to Madog ab Iorwerth, bishop of Bangor, and an elegy to Gwenhwyfar, wife of Hywel ap Tudur of Anglesey (brother to Goronwy of Penmynydd). It appears that he was also the author of at least some of the poems attributed to Gutun Ceiriog and Gutun Cyriog in B.M. Add. MS. 14866; Cardiff MS. 26; Llanstephan MS 47 , Llanstephan MS 122 , Llanstephan MS 134 ; Merthyr Tydfil MS.; NLW MS 1578B , NLW MSS 13061B ; and Peniarth MS 54 i , Peniarth MS 54 ii , Peniarth MS 112 , Peniarth MS 239 .

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928)
• Gwysaney MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 25 (255)
• The Myvyrian archaiology of Wales (Denbigh 1870), 332, 347
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• H. Lewis, Thomas Roberts, Ifor Williams (eds), Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac Eraill, 1350–1450 (Bangor 1925), clxx

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q13128781

Published date: 1959

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