Yr Hen Iaith part twenty nine: Guto'r Glyn (c.1410 – c.1493)

Yr Hen Iaith part twenty nine: Guto'r Glyn (c.1410 – c.1493)

Sword by azboomer via Pixabay Continuing our series of articles to accompany the podcast series Yr Hen Iaith. This is episode twenty nine. Jerry Hunter In our last instalment we concentrated on the ymrysonau, debates conducted using the strict-metre cywydd form, an interesting aspect of Welsh bardic culture and practice. In this episode we focus on Guto’r Glyn, a prolific poet from the fifteenth-century. Unlike many of the other cywyddwyr, he di…