Having gone over pp. 250-257, including the notes, from "The Significance of the Name Llasar" in Patrick Sims-Williams IRISH INFLUENCE ON MEDIEVAL WELSH LITERATURE, I'm now certain that the Gorlassar title of Uther Pendragon in the 'Marwnat Vthyr Pen' elegy poem does refer to him as the 'great fire', and not the very blue. I've always suspected this was the case, as we are told in the following lines that he is a 'leader in darkness' and a 'star in the gloom.' But both the GPC and Williams allows for Gorlassar to be the Welsh cognate of Irish forlas(s)ar, great blaze, great radiance. Please find attached a free pdf of Sims-Williams' book.
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