HYWEL GETHIN ('Hywel Gethin of Celynnog ' according to the manuscripts) (fl. c. 1485), poet

a native, it is said, of Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire. No details concerning his life remain, but the dates given him, by Owen Jones, Gweirydd ap Rhys, Myrddin Fardd, and Wiliam Owen (viz. 1570-1600) are obviously too late, because a cywydd written by him in praise of the four sons of Rhys ap Hywel ap Madog of Llanystumdwy remains in manuscript; these four persons lived at the end of the 15th cent, and beginning of the 16th century (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 129, 170). It is said that he was a genealogist, but no example of such work by him has yet been discovered, nor any further examples of his poetry.

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• NLW Archives: Llanstephan MS 123: Poetry (188)
• NLW Archives: NLW MS 5282B (43)
• Swansea Manuscript 1 (74)
• Y Brython, 1860, 233 (an article by 'Eben Fardd')
• Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
• 'Gweirydd ap Rhys,' Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 1300–1650 (1885)
• J. Jones ('Myrddin Fardd')Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon (1922)
• William Owen Pughe, The Cambrian Biography (1803)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733250

Published date: 1959

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