The Cymric language: Prize essays on the propriety of maintaining the Cymric language, not simply for the strengthening of Welsh nationality, but also for the purpose of aiding the English student in elucidating the etymology of divers words in his own tongue, many of which are partially, some totally, derived from the Cymric. A subject competed for at the South Wales Chair Eisteddfod, held at Cardiff in 1879. Essay I. -