Siôn ap Hywel

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Siôn ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. c.1490-1532) was a Welsh language poet.

Siôn ap Hywel composed poems on themes of love and religion.{{Cite web |title=SION ap HYWEL ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN, poet {{!}} Dictionary of Welsh Biography |url=https://biography.wales/article/s-SION-APH-1526 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=biography.wales}} He is noted for his elegy on the death of fellow Welsh poet Tudur Aled, in which he mentioned the 'Dull Edern Dafod Aur' in the elegy written by Davod Aur Edeyrn, (Edern Of The Golden Tongue) a dosbarth (arrangement or grammar) of the orthography of the Welsh language and of the form of words.{{Cite web |title=EDERN DAFOD AUR ('Edern of the Golden Tongue'), the person who, according to some manuscripts of the 16th century, made a small dosbarth (arrangement or grammar) of the orthography of the Welsh language and of the form of words {{!}} Dictionary of Welsh Biography |url=https://biography.wales/article/s-EDER-AUR-1280 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=biography.wales}}

References

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  • A. Cynfael Lake (ed.), Gwaith Siôn ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 1999).

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Category:Welsh-language poets

Category:16th-century Welsh poets

Category:16th-century Welsh male writers

Category:Year of birth uncertain

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