Chwedl Cymraeg? means Do you speak Welsh, and Do you tell a tale in Welsh? This is the root of storytelling or chwedleua in Wales. This book is a collection of such tales - ancient and new. Many of the tales are very short just like stories you would hear in a conversation. A disparate collection, but enjoyable. ( )

At first this seemed like a good idea. However, by the end I found myself in a blur of anecdotal, sometimes mythological, other times authorial passages which, although having chaptered themes, began to lose its pep. The author dips in and out of elucidation and sometimes I felt a bit disconcerted as how much the author had contributed to the telling of each piece and how much was "verbatim" from the sources from whence they came. In that I didn't want to read Welsh Folk Tales as told by Peter Stevenson, I wanted some background on who told the story and where it came from.

To be honest, the book for me was less a folk compendium and more a periodical assortment of loose tales. Having said that, it is still worth a read if you have an interest on the subject as it may introduce many myths and folktales that may otherwise remain unknown. ( )