Marwysgafn is a Welsh term meaning deathbed song, used by poets who sensed their own death was near to confess and ask for forgiveness. These poems were primarily composed during the Poets of the Princes period, roughly the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
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Place of Origin Defining TraitThe poet, sensing death is near, confesses and asks for forgiveness 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Marwysgafn, Wikipedia
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is a Welsh term meaning
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the poet confesses and asks for forgiveness
In Group: Irish and Welsh Bardic Poetry, Lead
a Welsh term meaning a "deathbed song"
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