Yr Hen Iaith part part 79: Bard of liberty and arch-forger: Iolo Morganwg

Yr Hen Iaith part part 79: Bard of liberty and arch-forger: Iolo Morganwg

Iolo Morganwg. A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Jerry Hunter Early in this century, the historian Geraint Jenkins spearheaded a large research project at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, ‘Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition, 1740-1918’. For nearly a century before this, Edward Williams (1747-1826) – or, to use his bardic name, Iolo Morganwg – had been known first and foremost a…