is a Welsh poem or praise song, in reference to Tenby (), in modern
Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire ( ; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and otherwise by the sea. Haverfordwest is the largest town and ...
, Wales.
It's the earliest reference to a settlement at Tenby. The poem is probably from the 9th century, preserved in the 14th-century
Book of Taliesin
The Book of Taliesin () is one of the most famous of Middle Welsh manuscripts, dating from the first half of the 14th century though many of the fifty-six poems it preserves are taken to originate in the 10th century or before.
The volume cont ...
, although it wasn't written by the poet
Taliesin
Taliesin ( , ; 6th century AD) was an early Britons (Celtic people), Brittonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the ''Book of Taliesin''. Taliesin was a renowned bard who is believed to ...
. It was probably produced by a
court poet in
Dyfed
Dyfed () is a preserved county in southwestern Wales, covering the modern counties Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire. It is mostly rural area with a coastline on the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel. Between 1974 and 1996, Dyfed w ...
to celebrate the
New Year. It is the only court poem from South Wales from before the era of the
Poets of the Princes
Medieval Welsh literature is the literature written in the Welsh language during the Middle Ages. This includes material starting from the 5th century AD, when Welsh was in the process of becoming distinct from Common Brittonic, and continuing t ...
that has survived.
It survived as part of five diverse Welsh manuscripts possibly written at
Cwmhir Abbey.
It was partly a lament for Bleiddud, Lord of Tenby.
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Poems in Welsh
Taliesin
Tenby
Medieval Welsh literature