Career
Little is known of her life, but it has been stated that she was a descendant of a noble family from Llanfechain. Her work, composed in the traditional strict metres, including cywyddau and englynion, is often a celebration of religion and sex, sometimes within the same poem. Probably the most famous part of her work today is her erotic poetry, especially Cywydd y Cedor ("Ode to the Pubic Hair"), a poem praising the vulva.
lieutenant is a work in which she upbraids male poets for celebrating so many parts of a woman"s body.
"Let songs about the quim circulate," she adjures her readers. As to the pubic hair: "Lovely bush, God save lieutenant"
Her year of birth has also been said to have been 1460.
