cyffyn

Updated: May 26, 2025

At present the place consists only of a few ruined walls, and probably consisted of little more two or three hundred years ago: Roger Cyffyn a Welsh bard, who flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century, wrote an englyn upon it, of which the following is a translation: "Gone, gone are thy gates, Dinas Bran on the height!

George Henry Borrow - Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery