Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug
Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug (died 1371), also known as Dafydd Ddu Athro o Hiraddug, was a
diocese of Llanelwy (St Asaph). He was once believed to be the son of a certain Hywel ap Madog of Tremeirchion, but this has now been disproven.[1]
Dafydd composed poems on religious themes; his surviving work includes poems on the
Book of Hours
) into Welsh.
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.
References
- ^ R. Geraint Gruffydd, op. cit., p. 103.
Bibliography
- R. Geraint Gruffydd and Rhiannon Ifans (eds.), Gwaith Einion Offeriad a Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug (Aberystwyth, 1997)
External links
- Gwenllian's Poetry Primer: an introduction to the poetic metres of the grammar.
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