pencerdd
Welsh literary office
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contribution to Welsh literature
- In Celtic literature: The Middle Ages
…of the order was the pencerdd (“chief of song or craft”), the ruler’s chief poet, whose duty was to sing the praise of God, the ruler, and his family. Next came the bardd teulu, who was the poet of the ruler’s war band although he seems to have been poet…
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