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Canu Llywarch Hen
Canu Llywarch Hen is a cycle of early Welsh poems in englyn metre, probably composed in the ninth or tenth century and preserved mainly in the Red Book of Hergest. In them the aged Llywarch Hen laments the sons he urged to their deaths in battle, and much of it is set in Powys. With the related Canu Heledd it ranks among the finest early Welsh poetry.
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