Poetry Codex

Celtic

Lewys Glyn Cothi

c. 1420–1490

Lewys Glyn Cothi was a fifteenth-century Welsh poet from the Cothi valley in Carmarthenshire, a wandering bard who sang for patrons across Wales and the borders.

His elegy for his young son Siôn is given in English verse by Alfred Perceval Graves in A Celtic Psaltery (1917).

Poems (2)

  1. The Elegy on Sion Glyn, a Child of Five Years of Age
  2. Plynlimmon

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