The literature of Wales is one of the oldest continuous literary traditions in Europe. The earliest surviving poetry was forged in the battlefields of post-Roman Wales and the 'Old North' of Britain, ...

Plans for more Welsh spoken in schools are part of the push for one million Welsh speakers by 2050 "Boring" poems and books used for GCSE Welsh are putting students off studying the subject at A ...

though it also contains examples of early Welsh poetry. Although it was originally a single volume, the collection is now bound as two separate volumes, known as Peniarth MS 4 and Peniarth MS 5.

The poets wrote in strict metre embellished with cynghanedd, the intricate system of sound chiming characteristic of Welsh poetry. Prose writings included the Mabinogi cycle of stories ...

The Tale of Igor’s Campaign and The Gododdin, two poetic texts crucially important for the history of Early Russian and Welsh literature respectively, have a very dark history. Both are preserved in ...