A headmaster for a Welsh language secondary school in Cardiff has said that those that oppose Llangollen International Eisteddfod's plans to change their "byd gwyn" motto need to be "reasonable and more sensitive" to the meaning of the words in Wales today.
Matthew Evans, who is the headmaster of Ysgol Glantaf in Cardiff, told BBC Cymru Fyw that poets should embrace the challenge of trying to create a new motto, noting that it was necessary to consider how Welsh-speaking people from ethnic minority backgrounds "read those words".
It comes after 85 literary figures from Wales and various other countries criticised the Llangollen International Eisteddfod decision to change their motto for fears it could be misinterpreted. Their motto "byd gwyn" comes from the first part of a verse composed by Welsh language poet, T. Gwynn Jones.
