In early April, one of the first Bibles to be
published
in Welsh was returned to the
house where its translator was born.
Bishop William Morgan began translating
the Bible
from Hebrew and Greek
into
Welsh in around 1579 on the instructions of
Queen Elizabeth I. It is credited with being
the single most important act in keeping the
Welsh language alive.
The Bible has returned to a house near the village of Penmachno, in Snowdonia, with
the assistance of the National Trust. The
charity helped to buy the Bible after it came
up for sale at the library which had previously held it.
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