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JONES, OWEN (Manoethwy; 1838 - 1866), school teacher and writer , Montgomeryshire. During his stay there he interested himself in the history of his country and people; many articles by him were published in the Brython, Yr Haul, Golud yr Oes, and Cymro, under the various pseudonyms of 'Cïan,' 'Llenwyson,' 'Pedrog,' ' Maldwyn,' 'Manoethwy,' 'Mihangel,' 'Myfyr,' 'O,' and 'O Wen'; he also wrote to English periodicals. After a five-year stay at Llanfair he resolved to enter
ANEIRIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), poet According to the Historia Brittonum of Nennius (c. 796), five notable Welsh poets, namely Talhaearn Tad Awen (father of song), Neirin, Taliesin, Blwchfardd, and Cian were eminent in Welsh poetry during the wars against Ida, king of Northumbria (547-59), and probably also during those waged against his sons. So, 'Neirin' is the first form of the name, but by 1200 it had acquired an 'a' before the

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