Y Ganolfan Geltaidd

Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru

University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
Cylchlythyr Rhif 15 Newsletter No. 15
Haf 2013 Summer 2013

DAU BROSIECT NEWYDD YN CYCHWYN Cafwyd newyddion cyffrous ym mis Ionawr pan glywsom fod y Ganolfan
wedi llwyddo i ennill grantiau ymchwil newydd i gychwyn dau brosiect
uchelgeisiol. Dyfarnodd Cyngor Ymchwil y Celfyddydau ar Dyniaethau
(AHRC) 689,167 ar gyfer Ewrop Mr Iwerydd yn Oesoedd y Metelau:
Cwestiynau am Iaith Gyffredin, a 774,582 ar gyfer Cwlt y Seintiau yng
Nghymru: Ffynonellau Cymraeg Canoloesol au Trosglwyddiad.
Cychwynnodd Prosiect Ewrop Mr Iwerydd ym mis Ebrill eleni i barhau
am dair blynedd dan arweiniad yr Athro John Koch, ein harbenigwr ar yr
ieithoedd Celtaidd cynnar, gyda chymorth dau archaeolegydd, Syr Barry
Cunliffe, Athro Emeritws ym Mhrifysgol Rhydychen, ar Athro Raimund
Karl o Brifysgol Bangor. Penodwyd dau Gymrawd Ymchwil newydd
yn y Ganolfan, Dr Fernando Fernndez, ffilolegydd o Sbaen, a Dr Kerri
Cleary, archaeolegydd o Iwerddon, a bydd arbenigwr ar fetelau, Dr Peter
Bray, yn gweithio ym Mhrifysgol Rhydychen. Amcan y prosiect yw dwyn
ynghyd dystiolaeth archaeolegol ac ieithyddol er mwyn taflu goleuni
newydd ar darddiadau daearyddol yr ieithoedd Celtaidd. Cyhoeddir
canlyniadaur prosiect ar wefan dan ofal Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
mewn cydweithrediad ag Adran Dyniaethau Digidol Coleg y Brenin
Llundain (KCL).
An AHRC grant of 689,167 has enabled us to begin a three-year project,
Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages (AEMA): Questions of Shared Language.
Led by Professor John Koch in partnership with archaeologists from the
universities of Oxford and Bangor, the team includes two new Research
Fellows at the Centre, Dr Fernando Fernndez, a philologist from Spain,
and Dr Kerri Cleary, an archaeologist from Ireland. By bringing together
archaeological and linguistic evidence the project aims to shed new light on
Kerri Cleary, Catriona Gibson, John Koch, Fernando Fernndez
the geographical origins of the Celtic languages.

Cychwynnodd Prosiect Cwlt y Seintiau ym mis Ebrill hefyd,

dan arweiniad Dr David Parsons a Dr Barry Lewis or Ganolfan
a Dr Jane Cartwright o Brifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant.
Dros y pedair blynedd nesaf bydd tm o bum ymchwilydd
yn gweithio ar yr holl destunau Cymraeg syn ymwneud r
seintiau, a gosodir golygiadau electronig ar wefan wedi
ei datblygu gan Adran Dyniaethau Digidol KCL mewn
partneriaeth Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Ein bwriad yw
hyrwyddo diddordeb yn lleol ac yn rhyngwladol yn y wedd
bwysig hon ar dreftadaeth ddiwylliannol Cymru.
A second AHRC grant of 774,582 has enabled us to begin a
four-year project, The Cult of Saints in Wales: Medieval Welsh-
Language Sources and their Transmission. In partnership with the
University of Wales Trinity Saint David, the Department of Digital
Humanities at KCL and the National Library of Wales, the project
will produce bilingual online editions of all the texts relating to
the saints, and aims to promote both local and international
David Parsons, Barry Lewis, Martin Crampin, Jane Cartwright, Alaw Mai Edwards, Eurig Salisbury
interest in this key aspect of Waless cultural heritage.
 DAU BROSIECT
Mae wedi bod yn amser
prysur ar Brosiect Cymru ar
Chwyldro Ffrengig wrth i

YN DOD I BEN
ymchwil y pedair blynedd
diwethaf ddwyn ffrwyth mewn
cyfres o gyfrolau cyffrous. Ceir
erbyn hyn ddetholiadau ac
Ym mis Rhagfyr 2012 daeth Prosiect Gutor astudiaethau o farddoniaeth y cyfnod cythryblus hwnnw yn Saesneg
Glyn i ben ar l pum mlynedd o waith caled. Tm a Chymraeg, yn ogystal thestunau or papurau newydd, baledi,
y prosiect, dan arweiniad Dr Ann Parry Owen, lluniau, a dyddiadur yn cofnodi taith trwy Ffrainc yn 1789. Daw rhagor
oedd Dr Iestyn Daniel, Dr Alaw Mai Edwards, o gyfrolaun fuan: golygiad o anterliwt, llythyrau a phamffledi. Trafodir
yr Athro Dafydd Johnston, Dr Barry Lewis ac rhai o brif themu a chwestiynaur prosiect yn ein cyfrol ddiweddaraf o
Eurig Salisbury, gyda chydweithrediad Dr ysgrifau gan ysgolheigion disglair yn y maes, Footsteps of Liberty and
Dylan Foster Evans o Brifysgol Caerdydd, ar nod oedd golygu holl gerddi Revolt: Essays on Wales and the French Revolution.
Guto or llawysgrifau gwreiddiol. Addaswyd y ffeiliau gan Dr Jenny Day
i fynd ar wefan a grewyd gan Dr Alexander Roberts o Brifysgol Abertawe,
<www.gutorglyn.net>. Lansiwyd y wefan mewn cynhadledd ryngwladol yn
Aberystwyth ym mis Medi 2012, ac mae bellach ar gael ir cyhoedd yn rhad
ac am ddim. Yno gellir darllen y cerddi gyda chymorth aralleiriadau Cymraeg
neu gyfieithiadau Saesneg a nodiadau manwl ar eu cynnwys. Cyflwynir y
cefndir hanesyddol ar wefan gysylltiedig, Cymru Guto. Cyhoeddir fersiynau
print Cymraeg a Saesneg or golygiad yn 2014.
Our five-year AHRC-funded project on the fifteenth-century poet Gutor Glyn
which ended in December 2012 has produced an electronic edition of the poetry,
now freely available on a bilingual website, <www.gutorglyn.net>, together with
a linked site presenting the historical background, Gutos Wales. Print versions of
the edition in both English and Welsh will follow in 2014.

In July 2012 we held our project conference, Locating Revolution: Place,

Voice, Community 17801820. Our keynote speakers were Professors
John Barrell (York), Claire Connolly (Cork) and Nigel Leask (Glasgow),
and we enjoyed a wide
range of papers on
revolutionary topics in
brilliant sunshine. This
lasted until the morning
of the conference trip
to Fishguard, site of the
1797 French Invasion,
where the heavens
opened. Our brave and bedraggled delegates only just made it back to
I ddathlu diwedd y prosiect cynhaliwyd cynhadledd ryngwladol yn the bus.
Aberystwyth, Gutor Glyn a Chymrur Bymthegfed Ganrif, 1113 Medi 2012,
a braf iawn oedd gweld y farddoniaeth yn ysgogi papurau ar rychwant eang
o bynciau hanesyddol a llenyddol.

Ann Parry Owen, Gruffydd Aled Williams, Anne Curry, Damian McManus, Dafydd Johnston
 Knowledge Transfer and Social
Networks: European Learning and
the Revolution in Welsh Scholarship
In June Dr Marion Lffler was awarded
a research grant of 85,302 by the
Leverhulme Trust for her project on the
local, national and European connections
of the Merthyr Tydfil scholar Thomas
Stephens and his patrons among them
Lady Llanover, Lady Charlotte Guest and
Baron Christian von Bunsen (Prussian
ambassador to the court of Queen
Victoria). The archival research will lead
her from Aberystwyth to south Wales,
Oxford and Berlin, where she hopes to
uncover the personal connections which
enabled Thomas Stephens to develop
modernist research concepts and revolutionize Welsh learning.
We look forward to hearing more about the fruits of her research!
place-names
of Shropshire
CAWCS is part of another new AHRC-funded project,
this one led by the University of Nottingham. The
next four years will see the publication of four
volumes completing the English Place-Name
Societys survey of the place-names of Shropshire.
At CAWCS a team consisting of Dr David Parsons
and Helen Watt, assisted by PhD student Emily
Pennifold, is responsible for a volume on Oswestry
and Clun hundreds, where a high proportion of the
names are Welsh in origin.
Oswestry and Clun hundreds
Ym mis Mehefin dyfarnodd
Ymddiriedolaeth Leverhulme nawdd
ymchwil o 85,302 i Dr Marion Lffler ar
gyfer ei phrosiect ar gysylltiadau lleol,
cenedlaethol ac Ewropeaidd yr ysgolhaig
Thomas Stephens o Ferthyr Tudful ai
noddwyr yn eu plith Arglwyddes Llanofer,
yr Arglwyddes Charlotte Guest ar Barwn
Christian von Bunsen (llysgennad Prwsia
yn llys y Frenhines Fictoria). Bydd y gwaith
archif yn mynd hi o Aberystwyth i dde
Cymru, Rhydychen a Berlin i ddarganfod y
cysylltiadau personol a alluogodd Thomas
Stephens i ddilyn syniadaeth ymchwilio
fodernaidd a chwyldroi dysg ein gwlad. Edrychwn ymlaen at glywed
rhagor am ffrwyth yr ymchwil!
Thomas Pennants
Tours of Scotland
and Wales
Dr Mary-Ann Constantine and Professor Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow) were
recently awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant to organize two workshops
on the Tours of Welsh antiquary Thomas Pennant (172398). The events, which took
place in Glasgow in January, and Aberystwyth in June, were a great success, and as
fascinatingly multidisciplinary as the writings of Pennant himself. From politics to
puffins, from mountains to manuscripts, via ferns and fossils, birds and bards, the
range of expertise on display in the papers and the discussions convinced us all that
Pennant and the travellers who followed in his footsteps have a great deal to contribute
to our understanding of the different cultures of late eighteenth-century Britain. We
are grateful to our many speakers, and hope these events will mark the beginning of a
larger future project in this area.
Images from Pennants extra-illustrated tour in Wales, courtesy of NLW
 European PhD Students
We welcomed our first two PhD students in November

Travellers 2011, and the complement has since risen to five, working
across a range of our staffs specialisms (and, in two cases,
in association with additional supervisors from Trinity Saint

to Wales David and the National Library of Wales). The students and
provisional titles of their dissertations: Linus Band-Dijkstra
(The history and usage of Brythonic compound verbs with to
be ), Martin Crampin (Pattern and tradition: medievalism in
The Centre is delighted to participate in an AHRC-funded project investigating the visual culture of Wales), Rhian James (Welsh Wills Online
European travellers to Wales in the period 17502010. In collaboration with as a research resource: evaluating the research potential, the
colleagues from Bangor and Swansea universities, this three-year project technical and historical challenges, and the needs of users),
will be an opportunity for Dr Heather Williams to apply her expertise in Rhys Jones (True Britons? Ancient British identity and Celtic
sociability in London, 17071835), Emily Pennifold (The
French literature, with the support of a Research Assistant located at CAWCS,
post-medieval field-names of the Anglo-Welsh border).
Arddun Arwyn, who specializes in German.
Maer Ganolfan yn falch iawn o fod yn rhan o brosiect dan nawdd yr AHRC
a fydd yn archwilio maes teithwyr Ewropeaidd i Gymru yn y cyfnod 1750
2010. Mewn cydweithrediad chyd-weithwyr o brifysgolion Bangor ac
Abertawe, bydd y prosiect tair blynedd yn elwa o arbenigedd Dr Heather
Williams mewn llenyddiaeth Ffrangeg, gyda chefnogaeth Cynorthwyydd
Ymchwil newydd a fydd yn gweithio yn y Ganolfan, sef Arddun Arwyn, syn
arbenigo mewn Almaeneg.

Linus Band, Emily Pennifold, Rhian James

Arddun Arwyn, Carol Tully, Heather Williams, Kathryn Jones

Rhys Jones Martin Crampin

Dathlur Deugain
Mae Cyfres Beirdd yr Uchelwyr yn parhau dan olygyddiaeth Ann
Parry Owen, a chydar ddwy gyfrol newydd a gyhoeddwyd eleni,
Cywyddau Ymryson Syr Dafydd Trefor (gol. Rhiannon Ifans) a
Gwaith Raff ap Robert (gol. A. Cynfael Lake) maer gyfres wedi
cyrraedd cyfanswm anrhydeddus o ddeugain cyfrol ac mae
rhagor i ddod cyn diwedd y flwyddyn!

Cyhoeddir y cylchlythyr hwn yn flynyddol. Gellir cael gwybodaeth bellach am weithgarwch y Ganolfan trwy gysylltu :
Swyddog Gweinyddol, Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH.
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