Hedd Wyn
Hedd Wyn (in Welsh "white peace"), was the pen-name of Ellis Humphrey Evans (1887-1917), a Merionethshire shepherd-poet of World War I. Evans spent the majority of his lfe 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 National Eisteddfod, Birkenhead, in 1917 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, Evans having been killed in Belgium at Pilkem Ridge shortly before.
The story became the subject of an Oscar-nominated Welsh-language film in 1993.
