Siôn Abel, also known as John Abel, (
fl.
''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for '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 indic ...
18th century) was a Welsh
ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Eur ...
eer and teacher who lived in
Montgomeryshire
Montgomeryshire ( ) was Historic counties of Wales, one of the thirteen counties of Wales that existed from 1536 until their abolishment in 1974. It was named after its county town, Montgomery, Powys, Montgomery, which in turn was named after ...
(Sir Drefaldwyn, now part of
Powys
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).
Work
In 1783, Abel wrote a poem entitled "A Christmas Carol" in Welsh three-stroke metre (
Welsh: ''tri-thrawiad''). He was also the author of "Song against Drunkenness, Lies and Miserliness" (as ''Cerdd yn Erbyn Medd-dod, Celwydd a Chybydd-dra''), published in a booklet of three ballads by H. Lloyd of Shrewsbury and listed in the ''Bibliography of Welsh Ballads'' (1909–1911) by
J. H. Davies. Another recorded work of his is the elegy "Ffarwel Ned Puw" (Farewell Ned Pugh).
References
Welsh male poets
18th-century Welsh poets
People from Montgomeryshire
18th-century Welsh male writers
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