Dafydd Ap Gwilym Quotes

Instead, the best known and most widely used Welsh term for the nation’s folkloric beings is perhaps tylwyth teg, ‘the good folk’, first attested in the fourteenth century in a poem of Dafydd ap Gwilym,19 and later in William Salesbury’s Welsh-English dictionary (1547).20 Other later terms such as plant (‘children’), plant annwn (‘children of the underworld’), gwragedd annwyl (‘dear women’) and anweledig (‘hidden ones’) are similarly euphemistic and elliptical.