At the Eisteddfod
From 1971 the Open University in Wales, Y Brifysgol Agored, has been represented at the Welsh National Eisteddfod, which is conducted in Welsh. When a competition was organised for an englyn (a single verse of two couplets in strict metre) with the subject was ‘Y Brifysgol Agored’, Dic Jones, a chaired bard, won with the following entry:
Agored ysgol gwerin – I danio
Doniau’r dyn cyffredin,
Daeth y coleg i’r gegin
A chwrs gradd i chwi ar sgrin
This has been translated as:
An open school for the people – igniting
The gifts of the common man,
A college came to the kitchen.
A BA course to the TV screen.
Quoted in Mandy Ashworth, ‘The Open University in Wales. A Charter Celebration, April 1994’, pp. 12-13.
