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Seisyll Bryffwrch (
fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1155–1175) was a Welsh-language poet. Seisyll competed against and was defeated by
Cynddelw Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr ("Cynddelw the Great Poet"; wlm, Kyndelw Brydyt or ; 1155–1200), was the court poet of Madog ap Maredudd, Owain Gwynedd (Owen the Great), and Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, and one of the most prominent Welsh poets of the 1 ...
in a contest for the role of chief court poet to Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys. Seisyll's own compositions include elegies on the death of Owain Gwynedd and of Iorwerth Drwyndwn grandfather and father respectively of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth. Seisyll also wrote poems in praise of the campaigns of the
Lord Rhys Rhys ap Gruffydd, commonly known as The Lord Rhys, in Welsh ''Yr Arglwydd Rhys'' (c. 1132 – 28 April 1197) was the ruler of the Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth in south Wales from 1155 to 1197 and native Prince of Wales. It was believed that he ...
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References


The Hendregadredd manuscript
*Morfydd E. Owen (ed.), 'Gwaith Seisyll Bryffwrch', in, Kathleen Anne Bramley ''et al.'' (ed.), ''Gwaith Llywelyn Fardd I ac eraill o Feirdd y Ddeuddegfed Ganrif'' (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, Cardiff, 1994). The standard edition of the poet's work (in Welsh). Welsh-language poets 12th-century Welsh poets Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown {{Wales-poet-stub