As of now (6 November 2005) Mererid Hopwood is the only woman ever to have won the Chair at the National Eisteddfod, the supreme honour for a poet writing in the traditional Welsh style.

The Society gratefully acknowledges Mererid Hopwood's kind permission to publish the original Welsh version on our web site.

For a word-for-word translation of the poem, click here.

For a Very, Very Short Introduction to traditional Welsh poetry, click here.

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Poem by Mererid Hopwood