> > > Rhys Jones's book is called *Teach Yourself Living Welsh*, not to be > > confused with Bowen & Rhys Jones's *Teach Yourself Welsh*; the > > Welshes they teach you to teach yourself are rather different. > > Neither will be terrifically helpful with pre-1600 Welsh, but B&RJ > > is marginally less irrelevant than RJ. Who's going to volunteer to > > write *Teach Yourself Middle Welsh*? > > I've played with the idea of trying something along this line eventually > (_after_ I finish the PhD!) for some friends of mine who want to learn > Medieval Welsh and don't have the good fortune to have a local university > that teaches it. Think there'd be a market for it? > > Heather Rose Jones Before anyone rushes to write a new book, D. Simon Evans's _A Grammar of Middle Welsh_, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976 [first published 1964], is still in print, as far as I know. When I bought it in 1990, it cost 9 pounds 30p. It's solid philological stuff, liberally exemplified from texts. Max Wheeler