Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug
He was once believed to be the son of a certain Hywel ap Madog of Tremeirchion, but this has now been disproven. Dafydd composed poems on religious themes; his surviving work includes poems on the Ten Commandments, Salvation, and on the ephemeracy of human life and of God's judgement to come after death. Dafydd is also thought to be the composer of the "Gwasanaeth Mair" (Mary's Service), a poetical translation of the Latin "Horae beatae Mariae virginis" (a Book of Hours) into Welsh.
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Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug
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- Born
- 1350 · Cwm.
- Died
- 1371
- Occupation
- poet · canon
- Languages
- Welsh · Latin
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Dafydd's greatest fame lies with his revised edition of the llyfr cerddwriaeth or bardic grammar of Einion Offeiriad. Dafydd was probably buried in Dyserth, north Wales.
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Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug lived from 1350 to 1400 and is documented in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug is recorded in 1350, and the death in 1400.
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- R. Geraint Gruffydd and Rhiannon Ifans (eds.), Gwaith Einion Offeriad a Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug (Aberystwyth, 1997)
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