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  • I have to learn paragraphs (about 9 i think) about the film, 'Hedd Wyn' (it's a welsh film).

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • The noted Welsh ffilm of 1992, Hedd Wyn, offered a moving biographical take on its eponymous poet.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The noted Welsh ffilm of 1992, Hedd Wyn, offered a moving biographical take on its eponymous poet.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • More info about Hedd Wyn is available here, and you can read another translated poem here.

    Archive 2008-05-01 tanita davis 2008

  • Hedd Wyn the "dd" is pronounced like the hard "th" in "this", meaning "white peace," was the bardic name of Ellis Humphrey Evans, the winner of the 1917 Welsh National Eisteddfod.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Farmer, Poet, Soldier a. fortis 2008

  • Hedd Wyn the "dd" is pronounced like the hard "th" in "this", meaning "white peace," was the bardic name of Ellis Humphrey Evans, the winner of the 1917 Welsh National Eisteddfod.

    Archive 2008-05-01 tanita davis 2008

  • More info about Hedd Wyn is available here, and you can read another translated poem here.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Farmer, Poet, Soldier a. fortis 2008

  • His first duty will be to represent Wales in the remembrance service in Passchendaele, Belgium, to mark ninety years since the third battle of Ypres, where Hedd Wyn and thousands of other Welsh soldiers died.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • "It's crucial you grab the readers' interest, especially the younger generations, because without knowledge of what's gone before, any society is doomed to keep repeating the same mistakes," says Carradice, whose most recent novel The Black Chair is about legendary poet Hedd Wyn.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • Ninety years since he died at Passchendaele in World War I, bard Hedd Wyn is still remembered.

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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