Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic

Yes, but he didn't write in English.

Well I was actually just correcting the headline because it was ignoring Welsh-language poetry. I also love RS Thomas but Dylan has had worldwide recognition.

O waycher here is nunderful

There is no weed for nerds

For silling on my window flutter

Biny little turds.

By Terry Jones

Port Shoem by the Speverend Rooner

I've a gouse and harden in the country

An ace to call my plown

A treat I can replace to

When I beed to knee alone.

Catterfly and butterpiller

Perch on beefy Lao

Listen to the dats and cogs

As they mark and they beow.

Wales' greatest English-language poet, surely?

A riddle from Bledri, a 12th-century Welsh storyteller, as relayed by Gerald of Wales:

"There are among us men who, when they go a-hunting, carry their horse on their shoulders until they come near to their quarry. Then, to catch their prey, they mount their steeds. ...

Syr John Rhŷs yn dathlu Gŵyl Ddewi yn yr heulwen.

Congratulations to Maia Williams of @jesusoxford.bsky.social, who has won the 2025 Sir John Rhŷs Essay Prize for her piece on mythological elements in an alternative ending to the Middle Welsh tale Math uab Mathonwy. Da iawn, Maia! www.english.ox.ac.uk/article/sir-...

Welsh Grammar

This manuscript was written in the early 17th century. It was probably owned by Iolo Morgannwg as it contains notes in his hand. It is a copy of the grammar used by the poets in the 16th century, although not an exact copy.

Date: 17th century BMSS/2

www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

Not sideburns, sideboards!

Modern druid calls for the mythologies of The Mabinogi to enter the digital age A Welsh druid has said The Mabinogi should be reimagined in virtual reality to survive the digital age and to reclaim Cymru’s stellar tradition of oral storytelling. One of the earliest and most influ...

A Welsh druid has said The Mabinogi should be reimagined in virtual reality to survive the digital age and to reclaim Cymru’s stellar tradition of oral storytelling

Rare Roman treasure found by metal detectorists Two rare Roman lead ingots discovered in Ceredigion have been officially declared treasure, shedding new light on Wales’ industrial past under Roman rule. The objects — known as lead “pigs” — were unc...

Two rare Roman lead ingots discovered in Ceredigion have been officially declared treasure, shedding new light on Wales’ industrial past under Roman rule

A person dressed in a horse skull and sheet as the mari lwyd. Unknown photographer.

'2026 is the year of the horse.'
The horse:

I'm out here asking the most important questions such as "when will the national theatre of Wales bring 'Siwan' back into production?"

The nineteenth century brought many developments which effected Welsh-language literary culture. Perhaps the single most important one was the growth of the periodical press✍️ Jerry Hunter buff.ly/utb9y03

Cant y cant i fi.

How a Welsh village saved its forest … and its future In an edited extract from her latest book, Hazel Sheffield sets out a new blueprint for community stewardship

Stori i godi calon!
Coedwig pobl Treherbert

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

When fish and chips shops used to look like butchers or cake shops and we had tiny red phone boxes.

Rhys Mwyn - Sut mae'r Mabinogi wedi ysbrydoli'r Cymry? - BBC Sounds Manon Prysor sy'n esbonio pam fod y Mabinogi yn ysbrydoli caneuon fel Ysbryd Efnisien.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I went to Wales v Scotland u20s. The guys behind me were singing beautifully. They turned out to be Georgians. I told them they sing better than us, play rugby better than us and drink better than us. They disagreed and gave me a Georgian scarf and wouldn't take my Welsh scarf in return.

Nationalism has a very different meaning in Wales.

Tri chosyn amrywiol ar fwrdd pren, a'r gair cosyn uwchben / three varieties of cheese on a wooden board, and the word cosyn above in yellow

Word of the Day: cosyn geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... this is the diminutive form of the word 'caws' (cheese). The plural diminutive forms of 'caws' are 'cosynnau' or 'cosynnod'. Cosyn is the name of the little mouse in the Rala Rwdins book series - a very fitting name indeed🧀🐭

Experience: I’m the last traditional clog maker in England I cut small trees around Offa’s Dyke, then shape the wood by hand

"I grew up in Ceredigion, surrounded by sheep. There were no jobs in the area and in 1976 I had to go on benefits...

I met a craftsman in an adjoining village called Tregaron. He was a clog maker called Hywel Davies..."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I'll be going along to this.

A one-day festival of words and music will take place this spring, marking the bicentenary of Iolo Morganwg, one of Wales’s most influential, imaginative and controversial cultural figures ✍️Jules Millward wp.me/p8Mk4U-1fhW

A scribe sits in a chair working on a book open before him. The book rests on a pedestal. From a copy of Gerald of Wales's Topography of Ireland in National Library of Ireland MS 700, fol. 29r

"Now that our leaders are no longer literate, no one, they say, has any time for humane letters."

- Gerald of Wales, c. 1193-94, in his Descriptio Cambriae
(trans. Lewis Thorpe, "The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales" (London, 1978) p. 216)

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Something to do on St David's Day, a Mabinogi trail including Pwyll, Culhwch, Branwen, Peredur, Macsen. Presumably storytelling in various locations. Pity no Geraint, which has a link to cardiff.
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Wedi cerdded i Ynys y Fydlyn gwpl o weithiau - ond yn gwybod dim am hyn!

Bore Da Bawb - Good Morning All
Robin Goch ymladdgar ym Mharc y Rhath
An aggressive Robin in Roath Park
#BirdsSeenIn2026
Cariad mawr o Gymru!
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Unless you're Welsh, in which case under the hood is Iolo Morgannwg.