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    Welsh-language literature (Welsh: Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg) has been produced continuously since the emergence of Welsh from Brythonic as a distinct language...
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    Welsh literature is any literature originating from Wales or by Welsh writers: Welsh-language literature for literature in the Welsh language Welsh literature...
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    Welsh writing in English, (previously Anglo-Welsh literature) is a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers. The term...
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  • Medieval Welsh literature is the literature written in the Welsh language during the Middle Ages. This includes material starting from the 5th century...
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    the Welsh language in them, including by the use of the Welsh Not in some schools in the 18th and 19th centuries. "Anglo-Welsh literature" and "Welsh writing...
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    include the Celtic languages Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh and the West Germanic Scots and Ulster Scots. There are many non-native languages spoken by immigrants...
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  • of writing arose because of the parallel development of modern Welsh-language literature. Because Britain was a colonial power the use of English spread...
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    British citizens. In Wales, the Welsh language (Welsh: Cymraeg) is protected by law. Welsh remains the predominant language in many parts of Wales, particularly...
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  • Wales portal Literature portal Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z This is a list of Welsh-language authors. Richard Ithamar...
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  • British literature Welsh-language literature List of Welsh-language authors Welsh literature in English Loesch, Katherine T. (1983). "Welsh bardic poetry...
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  • the Welsh language (Welsh: hanes yr iaith Gymraeg) spans over 1400 years, encompassing the stages of the language known as Primitive Welsh, Old Welsh, Middle...
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    Welsh (Cymraeg [kəmˈraːiɡ] or y Gymraeg [ə ɡəmˈraːiɡ]) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken...
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    culture. Artists and writers drew on the traditions of Gaelic literature, Welsh-language literature, and Celtic art—what historians call insular art (the Early...
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    amongst the Welsh bards or poets as a mnemonic aid in composing their poems and stories, and later became a rhetorical device of Welsh literature. The Medieval...
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    Economy of Wales, Culture of Wales, Welsh language, Welsh-language literature, Welsh literature in English, and of Welsh people in Wales and elsewhere. It...
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  • Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English is a 1977 poetry anthology edited by the author and academic Gwyn Jones. It covers both Welsh language poetry in English...
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    Book of Aneirin (category Welsh-language literature)
    best-known poem contained within its pages is Y Gododdin, an early Welsh-language poem commemorating the warriors from Gododdin (Lothian in modern Scotland)...
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    Mabinogion (category Welsh-language literature)
    The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: [mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn] ) is a collection of the earliest Welsh prose stories, compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries...
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  • Tawddgyrch Cadwynog Toddaid Welsh poetry Welsh literature Eisteddfod Stephens, Meic, ed. (1998). The New Companion to the Literature of Wales. Cardiff: University...
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    Hendregadredd Manuscript (category Welsh-language literature)
    The Hendregadredd Manuscript (Welsh: Llawysgrif Hendregadredd), is a medieval Welsh manuscript containing an anthology of the poetry of the "Poets of...
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    The Brittonic languages (also Brythonic or British Celtic; Welsh: ieithoedd Brythonaidd/Prydeinig; Cornish: yethow brythonek/predennek; and Breton: yezhoù...
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  • 2000, and managed by Literature Wales, and supported by the Welsh Government (specifically its Welsh Language Division), S4C, the Welsh Books Council and...
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    In addition to English, literature has been written in a wide variety of other languages in Britain, that is the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the...
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  • Awen (category Welsh-language literature)
    Awen is a Welsh, Cornish and Breton word for "inspiration" (and typically poetic inspiration). In Welsh mythology, awen is the inspiration of the poets...
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  • possibility of Anglo-Welsh literature due to the language's status as the official tongue of the British state, affirming that "the literature which people called...
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  • The Three Welsh Romances (Welsh: Y Tair Rhamant) are three Middle Welsh tales associated with the Mabinogion. They are versions of Arthurian tales that...
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  • Literature Wales, formerly named the Academi, is the Welsh national literature promotion agency and society of writers, existing to promote Welsh-language...
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    Culhwch and Olwen (category Welsh-language literature)
    Culhwch and Olwen (Welsh: Culhwch ac Olwen) is a Welsh tale that survives in only two manuscripts about a hero connected with Arthur and his warriors:...
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  • Much of Welsh language poetry has, until quite recently, been composed in various forms of strict metre (canu caeth), latterly with the encouragement of...
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