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Gender Masculine
Usage Welsh
Meaning & History
The bardic name of the 20th-century Welsh scholar, critic and poet David James Jones (1899-1968), in whose case it meant "fair wood" from Welsh gwen "white, fair, blessed" and allt "wood, small forest". His bardic name was a rearrangement of the elements in Alltwen, the name of a village across the river from his birthplace.