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medieval welsh dance

here are some dances danced at dafydd ap siancyn fychan's house in carmarthenshire in the fifteenth century. the lines are found in a praise poem to dafydd on his death, by lewis glyn cothi

ef a wybu o'i febyd
dan y sêr bob dawns o'r byd
fflŵr-ddy-brŵm, rheswm yr haf
côr y cantor,
fu'r cyntaf
yr eilwaith, gware orliawns
ac o rôn deg arwain dawns
dawns y ffrows hyd ynys ffrainc
dawns rial dawnswyr ieuainc
dawns y prifieirll, dawns profins
dawns y gwyr da sy'n y gins


odd dafydd yn llysgennad o gwmpas ardal calais