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Gruffudd ab Adda

Welsh poet

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contribution to Welsh literature

  • An overview of the Irish language
    In Celtic literature: The Middle Ages

    One contemporary, Gruffudd ab Adda, went much further toward a modern conception of nature; another, Iolo Goch, in his poem to the husbandman shows traces of English ideas, as seen in Piers Plowman. Llywelyn Goch Amheurug Hen wrote some early poems in the gogynfeirdd tradition, but his…

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