Dafydd ap gwilym biography definition
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Dafydd ap Gwilym
14th-century Welsh poet
Dafydd ap Gwilym (c. 1315/1320 – c.
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1350/1370) is regarded as one of the leading Welsh poets and amongst the great poets of Europe in the Middle Ages. Dafydd’s poetry also offers a unique window into the transcultural movement of cultural practices and preservation of culture in the face of occupation.
Dafydd also helps answer questions that linger over the spread of culture. Even though it has been given less attention, cultural development in Wales differed slightly than in other parts of Europe during the same time.
Dafydd ap gwilym biography definition
Life
R. Geraint Gruffydd suggests c. 1315-c. 1350 as the poet's dates; others place him a little later from c.
What was known as the red book of hergest
1320-40c. 1370-80.[1]
Later tradition has it that Dafydd was born at Brogynin, Penrhyn-coch (at the time Llanbadarn Fawr parish), Ceredigion. His father, Gwilym Gam, and mother, Ardudfyl, were both from noble families.
As one of noble birth it seems Dafydd did not belong to the guild of profession