Owain Glyndŵr's Court

He describes the cruciform shape of the hall, using the image of a church with chapels, and mentions wardrobes as fine as Cheapside's shops.

[2] Then he turns his attention outward to the rabbit warren, deer park, hayfields, mill, dovecote and fishpond.

Owain Glyndŵr, who in 1400 went into rebellion against the English crown,[3] was at the period this poem was written a peaceful minor nobleman enjoying his Powys estate.

[5] Glyndŵr's wife, praised by Iolo as "the best woman of all women...dignified and noble by nature",[6] was Margaret, daughter of a prominent judge, Sir David Hanmer, Justice of the King's Bench.

The critic David Johnston suggests that this is evidence that Iolo had faith in the vitality of the Welsh language, and did not feel it to be threatened by English.

[16][17] Iolo also uses an English street-name when he compares Sycharth's wardrobes to the shops of Siêp Lundain, "London's Cheapside".

[20][21][22] In 2019, Toby Niesse of the firm Vivid Virtual Reality created a video tour of Sycharth, basing his reconstruction of it on Iolo's poem and his own knowledge of medieval housebuilding techniques.