IEUAN BRYDYDD HIR HYNAF (fl. c. 1450), poet
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Ray Looker
said to have been a native of Ardudwy, Meironnydd. No details regarding his life are known, but many of his poems remain in manuscript, and at least two of them have been printed. Included in his work are two poems to God, one to God and the Virgin Mary, another to S. Winefred, one written by the poet in his old age, a begging poem, and two poems of controversy, or ymryson, addressed to the poet, Tudur Penllyn.
Author
- Ray Looker
- Jones and Lewis, Mynegai i Farddoniaeth y Llawysgrifau (1928)
- Bodewryd MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1
- Brogyntyn MSS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1, 4, 5
- NLW Archives: Cwrtmawr MS 114B, Cwrtmawr MS 206B, Cwrtmawr MS 244B
- Gwysaney MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 25
- Plas Nantglyn MS. at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 2
- NLW Archives: NLW MS 435B, NLW MS 436B, NLW MS 695E, NLW MS 722B: Barddoniaeth, NLW MS 1024D, NLW MS 1247D, NLW MS 3487E, NLW MS 6471B, NLW MS 6499B, NLW MS 7191B, NLW MS 9166B, NLW MS 11816B, NLW MS 13071B
- Sotheby Manuscript at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth C. 2
- Swansea Manuscripts 2, 3
- Y Brython, 1861, iv, 35 - the second poem is incorrectly attributed to Evan Evans here as in the 1773 Almanac W. Hywel (Llanidloes 1773), Llanidloes
- H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
- Edward Davies, Traethawd ar Enwogion Swydd Feirion, hen a diweddar, yn gelfyddydwyr, beirdd, gwyddonwyr, pregethwyr, 1870
- J. Davies, Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ, dictionarium duplex (1632)
- Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
- Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru (1870)
- William Owen Pughe, The Cambrian Biography (1803)
- Abraham Jenkins, 'The Works of Tudur Penllyn and Ieuan Brydydd Hir Hynaf' (University of Wales, M.A. Dissertation, 1921)
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: Ieuan Brydydd Hir
Further Reading
- Wikidata: Q13637528
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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