Dafydd Alaw
Biographies Dafydd Alaw was a Welsh poet about whom little is known. He is thought to have been a native of the Isle of Anglesey and a bardic disciple of Lewys Môn (as he commemorated him in an elegy). His surviving works (c.
Dafydd Alaw
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- poet
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- Eisteddfod of 1567
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1535–70) are mainly cywyddau and awdlau which praise members of some of the principal county families of Anglesey.
Dafydd Alaw studied at Eisteddfod of 1567.
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- 1.(NLW MS. (1553) Llanst. MSS. (123, 125, and 133)
- 2.Dafydd Alaw.
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