EINION ap GWGON (c. 1215), one of the poets of the Age of the Princes

Only one poem by him is extant, an eulogy to prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (Llywelyn the Great). This is found in Hendreg. MS. and in transcripts of it (B.M. MS. 14, 869, Llanstephan MS 31 , Peniarth MS 119 ). It was published in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales , i, 320; Anwyl, The Poetry of the Gogynfeirdd, 113; Llawysgrif Hendregadredd, 50-4; and also in part, in Stephens, The Literature of the Kymry, 155-7.

Author

• Gildas Tibbott, (1900 - 1979)

Sources

• Josiah Thomas Jones, Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru (Aberdâr 1867-70), i, 250
• Robert Williams, Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen (1852)
• Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru (1870)
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• J. E. Lloyd, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest (London 1911), 691

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Einion ap Gwgon

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q3324109

Published date: 1959

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