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2 unusual facts about Gutun Owain


Gutun Owain

Gutun Owain was closely associated with the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis where he was the principal scribe of the S text of Brenhinoedd y Saeson preserved in Llfyr Du Basing, 'The Black Book of Basingwerk', and where he may have been responsible for the continuation of that chronicle from 1333 to its end in 1461 (Dumville 2005).

Valle Crucis Abbey

Several important Welsh poets of the period spent time at the abbey including Gutun Owain, Tudur Aled and Guto'r Glyn.



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