Y Gododdin: Britain's Oldest Heroic Poem

Jarman, A. O. H.: - Born in Bangor in 1911 and educated there at the University College of North Wales, A O H Jarman was a Professor of Welsh and later Head of the Welsh Department and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at University College, Cardiff. He was the Sir John Rhys Fellow of the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College in 1975-6, O'Donnell Lecturer at the University of Wales in 1984 and Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecturer for the British Academy in 1985. From 1980-3 he was President of the British Branch of the International Arthurian Society, and later Honorary President. From 1963 till 1986 he edited Llên Cymru for the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales. Among the subjects on which Professor Jarman wrote extensively in books and articles are the Merlin Legend, the Mabinogion, the Cynfeirdd, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Arthurian Legend and the Black Book of Carmarthen, publishing a standard edition of the latter in 1982. He died in 1998.