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 ...
.
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
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