Dafydd ap Gwilym

The fact that they attended Welsh-language services at a Calvinistic Methodist chapel and not the English-language Church of England did not alter their British identity one bit, any more than did the fact that they read Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Mabinogion as well as Shakespeare and Dickens.

Dafydd ap Gwilym lived and worked here in Aberystwyth, Caradoc Evans too; grand and fierce maverick minds whose children continue to carry their flame.

In the fourteenth century, which gave Dafydd ap Gwilym to Wales, we find Gaelic becoming more definitely a conscious literary language.

Owen further published an edition of the greatest medieval Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, and also the first copious dictionary.

Eo tempore floruit Dafydd ap Gwilym Bardorum longe venustissimus e Ceretia oriundus.