Bedo Brwynllys (fl. c. 1460) was a

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Life

He lived in the

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area near

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. Bedo was a love poet in the tradition of

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whose work is sometimes mis-assigned to Bedo Aeddren. He composed an Elegy for Sir

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. He also composed some flyting poems between himself and Hywel Dafi and Ieuan Deulwyn, two contemporaries, and some surviving religious poetry has also been ascribed to him.

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* 15th-century Welsh poets {{Wales-poet-stub