Old Welsh (Hen Gymraeg) is the label attached to the Welsh language from the time it developed from the Brythonic language, generally thought to be in the period between the middle of the 6th century and the middle of the 7th century, until the early 12th century when it developed into Middle Welsh. Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Brythonic is one of two major divisions of Insular Celtic languages (the other being Goidelic). ... This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century. ... // Events Islam starts in Arabia, the Quran is written, and Syria, Iraq, Persia, North Africa and Central Asia convert to Islam. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Middle Welsh (Cymraeg Canol) is the label attached to the Welsh language of the 12th to 14th centuries, of which much more remains than for any earlier period. ...

Many poems and some prose has been preserved from this period, although some are in later manuscripts, for example the text of Y Gododdin. The oldest surviving text entirely in Old Welsh is probably on a gravestone now in Tywyn church, thought to date from the early 8th century. A text in the Book of St. Chad is thought to have been written in the late 8th or the 9th century but may be a copy of a text from the 6th or 7th centuries. Y Gododdin (The Gododdin), attributed to the 7th century poet Aneirin, is a series of 99 elegies to the men of the kingdom of Gododdin in north-eastern Britain who fell in the battle of Catraeth, thought to be Catterick in North Yorkshire, against the Angles, ca. ... Tywyn is a town lying on Cardigan Bay in north Wales a mile away from the mouth of the Afon Dysynni and known as a seaside resort. ... (7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ... The Lichfield Gospels (also known as the Chad Gospels, the Book of Chad, the St. ...

Old Welsh is only intelligible to a modern-day Welsh speaker with the aid of extensive notes.

References

Glanville Price (1985) The languages of Britain (Edward Arnold) ISBN:0-7131-6452-2