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    Englyn (pronounced [ˈɛŋ.lɪn]; plural englynion) is a traditional Welsh short poem form. It uses quantitative metres, involving the counting of syllables...
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  • Hirion: see Cywydd Cywydd Llosgyrnog Englyn Proest Cyfnewidiog Englyn Proest Cadwynog Englyn Unodl Crwca Englyn Unodl Union Gorchest Beirdd Gwawdodyn...
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    The Menai Suspension Bridge (Welsh: Pont y Borth or Pont Grog y Borth) is a suspension bridge spanning the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey...
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  • Englynion Gwydion is the name sometimes used to refer to a series of three englyn (Welsh plural englynion) composed by Gwydion to call to him the wounded...
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    finds him perched high on an oak tree. Through the singing of an englyn (known as englyn Gwydion) he lures him down from the oak tree and switches him back...
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  • I will utter') is a medieval Welsh englyn-poem. It is a relatively rare example of religious poetry in the englyn form. In the assessment of Jenny Rowland...
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  • ABBAACCDDC Double dactyl: XXXA XXXA Enclosed rhyme (or enclosing rhyme): ABBA Englyn: complex structure "Fire and Ice" stanza: ABAABCBCB as used in Robert Frost's...
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  • his deeds at the Battle of Llongborth. The poem consists of three-line englyn stanzas and exists in several versions all in Middle Welsh. The earliest...
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  • down and finds him perched high on an oak tree. Through the singing of an englyn (known as englynion Gwydion) Gwydion lures Lleu down from the oak tree and...
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    encompasses the districts of Blaencwm, Blaenrhondda, Tynewydd and Pen-yr-englyn. 'Tre-Herbert' or 'Tre Herbert' is correctly pronounced as in 'Tre Herbert'...
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  • the englynion in the Black Book of Carmarthen. Finally, there is a single englyn milwr preserved in Wrexham MS 1 and still later manuscripts. Although the...
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    Clough Williams-Ellis was subsequently erected around the grave, bearing an englyn (strict-metre stanza) engraved on slate in his memory composed by his nephew...
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  • century, someone copied two Old Welsh poems into the margins: a nine-stanza englyn poem on the wonders of God's creation (generally known as the 'Juvencus...
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  • Little is known about him, but it is thought that two of his works (an englyn in reply to one by David Cadwaladr, and a free metre religious poem) may...
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  • leper of Abercuawg') is the modern title of a 32-stanza medieval Welsh englyn-poem. According to Jenny Rowland, 'most critics would classify it among...
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  • 'ɬəwarχ heːn/, the songs of Llywarch Hen) are a collection of early Welsh englyn-poems. They comprise the most famous of the early Welsh cycles of englynion...
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    1824 National Eisteddfod in Powys, satirical poetry in the traditional englyn form was submitted under the pre-announced title "Beddargraff Dic Siôn Dafydd"...
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    1405. The stories concerning his rivalry with Glyndŵr include satirical englyn in Welsh, supposedly composed by Glyndŵr himself about his rival after he...
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  • son of the poet Siancyn Fynglwyd. He is known to have written a number of englyn-style poems in praise of Gruffudd Dwnn's mansion in the Ystrad area, and...
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    the hairs of Dillus the Bearded. However, when Arthur makes a satirical englyn about Cai, he grows angry and hostile towards the king, ultimately abandoning...
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  • four traditional Welsh poetic meters adopted in the later Middle Ages. Englyn Meic Stephens, 1986, The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, Oxford...
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    National Eisteddfod in Powys, where satirical poems in the traditional englyn form were submitted under the pre-announced title "Beddargraff Dic Siôn...
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    (1751–1827), bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, poet, from Glanymorfa is the author of an englyn to his mother Ann Dafydd (d. 1785) which is preserved on a brass plate in...
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    monument was erected in Machynlleth in 2000. The plinth of the monument has an englyn by the poet Dafydd Wyn Jones, which he has translated as follows: Owain...
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  • Welsh englyn-poems, one of nine and one of three englynion. For the text and Sir Ifor William's translation see: The Juvencus Englynion. The englyn-cycles...
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  • Welsh /'kani 'hɛlɛð/, the songs of Heledd) are a collection of early Welsh englyn-poems. They are rare among medieval Welsh poems for being set in the mouth...
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    noted for developing two traditional Welsh verse forms: the awdl and the englyn. A dispute over an award, between him and members of the Gwyneddigion Society...
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    of Maes Cogwy in 642. According to the probably ninth-century cycle of englyn-poems Canu Heledd, the region around Pengwern was sacked soon after, its...
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  • extensively about her opposition to the Protestant Reformation. In one englyn, she wrote: Liz Herbert McAvoy places emphasis on her usage of Latin in...
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  • Caernarvonshire . It is thought at least 27 of Cesail's cywydd poems and nine of his englyn poems may still survive. Lake, A. Cynfael (2004). "Cadwaladr Cesail (fl...
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