Lost Welsh nursery rhyme rediscovered

In the Celtic lands poems and stories are often carried in the minds of the people. Recently in the Welsh newspaper Cambrian News there was an item about a lost rhyme. The rare Welsh nursery rhyme was redicovered during an exhibition at Plasgwyn Care Home, near Criccieth, on the Llŷn Peninsula (Welsh: Penrhyn Llŷn) in Wales. It was recalled by 92-year-old resident Will Hughes from his childhood in Penrhyndeudraeth. He said: “It has just stuck in my mind all my life and it came back to me from when I was in school.”

Medd ffedog fy mam wrth frat fy chwaer,

A gawn ni fynd gyda’r gwynt i Gaer,

Eitha peth meddai’r lliain bwrdd’,

Fydda torri’r lein a dianc i ffwrdd.