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

Name: Einion ap Gwgon
Gender: Male
Occupation: one of the poets of the Age of the Princes
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Gildas Tibbott

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.

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Published date: 1959

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