Gerallt Lloyd Owen (6 November 1944 – 15 July 2014) was a Welsh-language poet who lived in Llandwrog.
[2] Owen began as a "political poet" in the 1960s, often using medieval forms or imagery for purposes of promoting Welsh nationalism.
[3] The 1982 Bardic Chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales was awarded to Owen for his awdl Cilmeri, which Hywel Teifi Edwards has called the only 20th-century awdl, that matches T. Gwynn Jones' 1902 masterpiece Ymadawiad Arthur ("The Passing of Arthur").
Owen's Cilmeri reimagines the death of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of the Royal House of Gwynedd in battle near the village of the same name on 11 December 1282, while leading a doomed uprising against the occupation of Wales by King Edward I of England.
Owen also, according to Edwards, encapsulates in the Prince's death the Welsh people's continuing "battle for national survival.