pencerdd

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | 369 words | Copyright

pencerdd [W pen, chief; cerdd, art]. A chief poet of early Wales, requiring nine years of training in such subjects as grammar, metrics, and genealogy. Only a pencerdd could teach a bard. As late as 1547, the poet Simwnt Fychan (c.1530–1606) received a written licence to become a pencerdd, a document which survives. Roughly comparable to the early Irish ollam.

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