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Llywarch ap Llywelyn
Llywarch ap Llywelyn, known as Prydydd y Moch ('Poet of the Pigs'), was one of the leading Poets of the Princes in medieval Wales, active from about 1173 to 1220. He composed elaborate praise poems for the rulers of Gwynedd, above all Llywelyn the Great, whose rise he celebrated. His work forms a major part of the surviving poetry of the Gogynfeirdd.
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