DAFYDD ap HARRI WYN (fl. 1568), poet

Name: Dafydd ap Harri Wyn
Gender: Male
Occupation: poet
Area of activity: Poetry
Author: Evan David Jones

a native of Edeirnion. It is said that he produced work of greater excellence than any poet who graduated at the Caerwys eisteddfod but he refused to graduate and destroyed all his work, describing it as vanity.

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Published date: 2001

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