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DAFYDD LLWYD ap LLYWELYN ap GRUFFUDD (c. 1420 - c. 1500) Mathafarn, poet 1509), the poet's greatest hero. Contemporary poets praised Dafydd Llwyd as a soldier, a huntsman, an esquire (an honour bestowed on him after the victory at Bosworth), as a poet, and as an upholder of the prophetic tradition of Merlin. In his vaticinatory poems, he puts into verse much traditional material, but often as political propaganda. He is capable of praising Dafydd ap Ieuan ab Einion, as
DAFYDD LLWYD ap SION - gweler DAFYDD LLWYD o'r HENBLAS
DAFYDD LLWYD MATHAU, MATHE, or MATHEW (fl. 1601-1629), poet and strolling minstrel
DAFYDD LLWYD MATHE - gweler DAFYDD LLWYD MATHAU
DAFYDD LLWYD MATHEW - gweler DAFYDD LLWYD MATHAU
DAFYDD LLWYD SYBYLLTIR (fl. c. 1610), poet
DAFYDD LLYFNI (fl. end of 16th century), poet
DAFYDD MEIFOD (fl. c. 1600), poet
DAFYDD MORGANWG - gweler JONES, DAVID WATKIN
DAFYDD MYNYDDBACH - gweler JAMES, DANIEL
DAFYDD NANCONWY (fl. 17th century), writer of cywyddau He is said to have been the son of Tomas Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys ap Gronnw ap Meyrick ap Llewelyn ap Richard ap Dafydd of Pwll-y-crochan in ' Llechwedd Isaf ' (i.e. Arllechwedd Isaf), Caernarfonshire His father also was a poet, and he is known to have written a cywydd in 1654. Among the few poems by Dafydd Nanconwy which have survived is a cywydd to Captain William Myddelton of Gwaenynog, who
DAFYDD NANMOR (fl. 15th century), poet He is named after the village of Nanmor (Nanmor Deudraeth) near Beddgelert. He sang cywyddau in the manner of Dafydd ap Gwilym, to a married woman, Gwen o'r Ddôl, i.e. Dolfriog in the same neighbourhood, and because of these poems he was sent from the district after a verdict given by twelve jurymen. This happened, according to the bard, when Dafydd ab Ifan ab Einion was engaged in the war in

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