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Cyflwyniad hwyliog i hanes llenyddiaeth Gymraeg, gyda Jerry Hunter, hogyn o’r Midwest yn America yn dysgu Richard Wyn Jones o Sir Fôn am drysorau’i iaith ei hun

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Pennod 80 - Ann Griffiths (1776-1805) - Ambobdim Tan yn ddiweddar, Ann Griffiths oedd yr unig fardd benywaidd a welid mewn canonau llenyddol Cymraeg. Nid yw’n syndod felly i Richard Wyn Jones ddweud ei fod yn lled gyfarwydd â hi wrth i ni ddechrau t...

Ein pennod diwetharaf nawr ar @ambobdim.bsky.social - Mae @jerryhunter.bsky.social a @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn trafod gwaith Ann Griffiths! 👇
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08.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

If you haven't listened to it already, I can't recommend @yrheniaith.bsky.social enough, by the way!

01.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Iolo Morganwg matched his words with action. He was a vocal opponent of Britain’s involvement in the slave trade. Although he struggled financially for most of his life, Iolo turned away profit if it was connected to slavery ✍️Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-1dmE

25.01.2026 20:45 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 3
Pennod 79 - Bardd Rhyddid ac Arch-ffugiwr: Iolo Morganwg - Ambobdim Edrychwn yn y bennod hon ar un o gymeriadau mwyaf enigmatig y traddodiad llenyddol Cymraeg (ac efallai un o gymeriadau mwyaf enigmatig hanes Cymru yn gyffredinol), sef Edward Williams neu Iolo Morganw...

Pennod newydd Yr Hen Iaith! Mae @jerryhunter.bsky.social a @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn trafod un o'r enwau mwyaf cyfarwydd mewn llenyddiaeth Cymru (yn arbenigo mewn ffuglen 😆 ) - Iolo Morgannwg. Ar @ambobdim.bsky.social , YouTube, a phob ap podlediadau rwan.

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23.01.2026 09:06 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Split-screen video interview with two men on webcams, bookshelves behind them, titled ‘Pennod 78 – Jac Glan-y-Gors.

Split-screen video interview with two men on webcams, bookshelves behind them, titled ‘Pennod 78 – Jac Glan-y-Gors.

Pennod 78 – Jac Glan-y-Gors @yrheniaith.bsky.social

Yn y bennod hon, mae Jerry Hunter a Richard Wyn Jones yn cael hwyl yn trafod John Jones (1766-1821), cymeriad amryddawn a adwaenir yn well heddiw fel Jac Glan-y-Gors

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08.01.2026 09:29 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Pennod 77 - Marged Dafydd (c.1700-c.1785) - Ambobdim Cawn gyfle yn y bennod hon i ystyried dwy wedd ar yrfa lenyddol Marged Dafydd. Yn enedigol o’r Coetgae-du ym mhlwyf Trawsfynydd, cafodd fywyd hir a chysegrodd lawer iawn o’i hamser i ddiogelu ac astud...

Ein pod diwetharaf nawr ar gael ar @ambobdim.bsky.social . pob ap podlediadau ac ar YouTube:
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18.12.2025 16:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rhaid cyfaddef nad oeddwn i erioed wedi clywed am Angharad James (bardd o’r 18fed ganrif) cyn hyn.

Os ydych chi’n yr un cwch yna dwi’n sicr y byddwch yn cael eich swyno…!

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08.12.2025 11:36 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Yr Hen Iaith part 76: A Friend’s Invitation and a Mother’s Grief: the poetry of Angharad James Jerry Hunter As was noted while discussing the medieval poet Gwerful Mechain in episode 27 and the sixteenth-century poet Alis ferch Gruffudd in episode 38, one of the most exciting developments in We...

I freely confess that I’d never even heard of C18th century poet Angharad James until this episode of @yrheniaith.bsky.social but her work is remarkable

Read this lovely overview by @jerryhunter.bsky.social then please search your attic for the lost ‘llyfr coch’!

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08.12.2025 11:43 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Two men speaking in a split-screen video call, each seated in front of bookshelves, with Welsh text ‘Pennod 76 – Angharad James’ overlaid at the bottom and a circular ‘Yr Hen Iaith’ logo at the top

Two men speaking in a split-screen video call, each seated in front of bookshelves, with Welsh text ‘Pennod 76 – Angharad James’ overlaid at the bottom and a circular ‘Yr Hen Iaith’ logo at the top

Pennod 76 - Angharad James

Mwynhewch pennod 76 @yrheniaith.bsky.social gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social ar Am nawr!

Enjoy the latest episode of Yr Hen Iaith with Richard Wyn Jones and Jerry Hunter on Am now!

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04.12.2025 09:27 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Yr Hen Iaith part 75 – The earliest Welsh-American literature Jerry Hunter The first Welsh-language American book was published more than half a century before the birth of the United States. Its author, Ellis Pugh, was one of a number of Welsh Quakers who immig...

From @yrheniaith.bsky.social podcast

Early Welsh language literature from the Americas includes a poem from 1596 imagining a dolphin carrying a message from a ship in the Caribbean home to Wales

Benjamin Franklin (yes, that one) printed a Welsh language book in 1730!

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02.12.2025 11:50 — 👍 32    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 2
Pennod 75 - ‘Bro coedydd, gelltydd gwylltion’: Dechreuadau Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg America
YouTube video by Yr Hen Iaith Pennod 75 - ‘Bro coedydd, gelltydd gwylltion’: Dechreuadau Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg America

Yn syth o Ohio, UDA! Y podlediad Cymraeg fyw cyntaf erioed (citation needed!) a recordiwyd yn America? Ein pennod diwetharaf gyda’r ein dau Americanwyr @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social yn trafod y dechreuadau llenyddiaeth Gymraeg America 👇👇
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25.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 3    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Ein pennod 'coll' nawr arlein, joiwch dysgu am Goronwy Ddu!

06.11.2025 15:42 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Two men laughing together while sitting at a table with bookshelves behind them. Text on image reads ‘Pennod 73 - Morrisiad Môn’ and ‘Yr Hen Iaith.

Two men laughing together while sitting at a table with bookshelves behind them. Text on image reads ‘Pennod 73 - Morrisiad Môn’ and ‘Yr Hen Iaith.

NEWYDD | NEW

Pennod 73 – Morrisiaid Môn

Gwyliwch a gwrandewch ar bennod ddiweddaraf @yrheniaith.bsky.social ar Am nawr!📺

Watch and listen to the latest episode of @yrheniaith.bsky.social on Am now!📺

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23.10.2025 10:48 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Pennod 72: Y Ffŵl a’r Pregethwr: Yr Anterliwt (rhan 4)

Gwyliwch a gwrandewch ar bennod newydd Yr Hen Iaith @yrheniaith.bsky.social gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social ar Am nawr:

Listen and watch now:

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09.10.2025 09:18 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Llongyfarchiadau i bob enillydd a diolch i’r British Podcast Awards - 🥈

02.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Two men sit at a table in front of bookshelves, one holding papers and the other gesturing while speaking, with laptops and mugs on the table.

Two men sit at a table in front of bookshelves, one holding papers and the other gesturing while speaking, with laptops and mugs on the table.

Pennod newydd @yrheniaith.bsky.social

Pennod 71 – Ffŵl heb Ffiniau: Yr Anterliwt (rhan 3)

Cewch gyfle yn y bennod hon i gyfarfod â Gwagsaw, Syr Caswir, Ffowcyn Gnuchlyd a rhai o ffyliaid eraill yr anterliwtiau

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25.09.2025 14:21 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Pennod 70 - ‘Dynion dawnus yn dilyn chw’ryddiaeth’: Yr Anterliwt (rhan 2) - Ambobdim Canolbwyntiwn yn y bennod hon ar yr actorion a oedd yn perfformio mewn anterliwtiau, gan graffu ar nifer o destunau llenyddol sy’n taflu goleuni ar eu gwaith a’u hunaniaeth.   Yn debyg i gwmni drama h...

‘Dynion dawnus yn dilyn chw’ryddiaeth’: Yr Anterliwt (rhan 2)

Ar Am nawr: Pennod 70 @yrheniaith.bsky.social gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social!

Now on Am: the latest episode of Yr Hen Iaith with Richard Wyn Jones and Jerry Hunter!

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11.09.2025 09:02 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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YouTube Screenshot showing two men with short white and grey hair sitting at a table in front of a bookcase recording a podcast.

Baledi’r Ddeunawfed Ganrif

Ar Am nawr: Pennod 68 Yr Hen Iaith @yrheniaith.bsky.social gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social!

Now on Am: the latest episode of Yr Hen Iaith with Richard Wyn Jones and Jerry Hunter!

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14.08.2025 10:37 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Yr Hen Iaith part 67: That Which Was Lost Jerry Hunter We have been discussing the Methodist Revival in recent episodes, concentrating specifically on the work of William Williams, Pantycelyn, and highlighting some of the ways in which that p...

"Eighteenth-century religious reformers worked energetically to kill some Welsh traditions... the best example is the gwylmabsant, an annual parish festival or wake (the gŵyl, ‘festival’, of the mabsant, the saint to whom the parish church was dedicated)."
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04.08.2025 09:22 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ochr Arall y Geiniog

Mae Pennod 67 Yr Hen Iaith @yrheniaith.bsky.social gyda
@richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social ar Am nawr!

The latest episode of Yr Hen Iaith with Richard Wyn Jones and Jerry Hunter is now on Am!

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31.07.2025 09:43 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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It’s hard to find two eighteenth-century poets who had a more tangible influence on the development of Welsh-language literature than Goronwy Owen and William Williams Pantycelyn. And they approached poetry in completely different ways ✍️Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-130r

20.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Pennod 66 - Bardd Diofal?: Williams Pantycelyn (rhan 3) - Ambobdim Rydym ni’n gorffen trafod yr emynydd mawr yn y bennod hon trwy ofyn cwestiwn a fydd o bosib yn annisgwyl i’r rhan fwyaf o’n dilynwyr, sef a oedd Pantycelyn yn fardd diofal? Dyfynnwn nifer o ysgolheigi...

Mae Pennod 66 Yr Hen Iaith @yrheniaith.bsky.social gyda @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social ar gael ar Am nawr!

The latest episode of Yr Hen Iaith with Richard Wyn Jones and Jerry Hunter is available on Am now!

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17.07.2025 09:03 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Recordiadau o benodau byw o @yrheniaith.bsky.social wedi eu cwblhau yma’n Ohio. Diolch i’r gynulleidfa - ‘da chi werth y byd…!!

18.07.2025 20:15 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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By the time Yr Hen Iaith reaches Llyfr Glas Nebo, or wherever the series ends, I like many other readers and listeners will feel that they’ve had a university level education in the ways and wonders of llenyddiaeth Cymraeg ✍️Jon Gower wp.me/p8Mk4U-11m8

21.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

“Hunter, biau’r pod!”

Mae pennod 64 Yr Hen Iaith nawr ar gael ar @ambobdim.bsky.social , YouTube ac eich hoff ap podlediadau. Ymunwch â @jerryhunter.bsky.social a @richardwynjones.bsky.social yn trafod gwaith William Williams, Pantycelyn. 👇

22.06.2025 22:30 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Ein pod diwethaf nawr ar gael ar @ambobdim.bsky.social (ac yn eich ap podlediadau, a YouTube hefyd) 👇

20.06.2025 07:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🎉🥳 Penblwydd Hapus @ambobdim.bsky.social !

18.06.2025 09:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pennod 63 - nawr ar gael ar YouTube a phob ap podlediadau!
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16.06.2025 10:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pennod nesaf Yr Hen Iaith nawr ar gael ar @ambobdim.bsky.social gyda @jerryhunter.bsky.social a @richardwynjones.bsky.social ac yn eich apia podlediau a YouTube yn fuan:
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12.06.2025 09:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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CYHOEDDIAD: Bydd @jerryhunter.bsky.social a @richardwynjones.bsky.social nôl gyda cyfres 3 Yr Hen Iaith wythnos nesaf!

Tanysgrifiwch yn eich ap podlediadau, neu ar YouTube. Bydd pob pennod ar gael yng nghyntaf @ambobdim.bsky.social gyda talfyriadau Saesneg ar @nation.cymru. Ymlaen!

07.06.2025 10:53 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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