recognised on a national level as a representative of the Gwynedd talaith of the Gorsedd in the National Eisteddfod of 1834 at Cardiff Castle by Taliesin ab Iolo. According to the Merthyr Guardian newspaper dated 31 August of that year, he had walked all the way from Denbigh to Cardiff (about 160 miles) in order to receive his honour. The following year (1835) an Eisteddfod was held in the Gwynedd talaith in Llanerchymedd, Anglesey, where Clwydfardd was acclaimed to be that Eisteddfod's Chief Bard. Publications An edition of Edmund Prys's Salmau Cân (1621), a metrical translation of the Psalms into Welsh Biography A biography of Clwydfardd was published by his great-grandson, also named David Griffith, in 2000. References External links Bibliographic catalogue entry 1800 births 1894 deaths 19th-century Welsh poets Calvinist and Reformed poets People from Denbigh Welsh Eisteddfod archdruids