HYWEL YSTORM (or YSTORYN), a clerwr or composer of lampoons in the first half of the 14th century
Gender: Male
Occupation: clerwr or composer of lampoons
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: David Myrddin Lloyd
In Mostyn MS. 118 (509) his name is given as 'Ystoryn,' but in R.B.H. Poetry, col. 1337 we find 'Ystorym' above a scurrilous poem of his to 'Adam the tinker.' G. J. Williams (in Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 6-8) attributes to him all the anonymous abusive verse which follows to the end of col. 1348, and on these grounds he makes him contemporary with Casnodyn - see col. 1341, 1. 42. If all these verses are his, he sang his lampoons to various men in North Wales from Anglesey to Maelor, and to others in Glamorganshire.
Author
- David Myrddin Lloyd, (1909 - 1981)
Published date: 1959
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