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Hedd Wyn (1887–31 July 1917) was a Merionethshire shepherd-poet of World War I. Born Ellis Humphrey Evans, he used the Bardic name Hedd Wyn, Welsh for "white peace" or "blessed peace". Evans spent most of his life on a hill farm near Trawsfynydd. By the age of 28 he had won four eisteddfod chairs for his poetry.
Evans was awarded the bardic chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod, Birkenhead, for his poem "Yr Arwr" ("The Hero"), written in the verse form known as an awdl. The award was posthumous, with the eisteddfod chair draped in black cloth during the award ceremony, Evans having been killed in Belgium at Pilkem Ridge shortly before. (Another war poet, Francis Ledwidge, was killed on the same day.) He is buried at Artillery Wood Cemetery, near Boezinge (see external link below for picture).
The story became the subject of the Oscar-nominated Welsh-language film Hedd Wyn in 1992.
External links
- Hedd Wynn's tombstone
- Text of Yr Arwr
- IMDB entry for Hedd Wyn
- WW1 Cemeteries.com, a comprehensive guide to the Military cemeteries and memorials of France, Belgium, Britain and worldwide
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