During his long literary career Gwyn Jones has experimented with various genres at various times, first writing four novels, then producing four volumes of short stories, returning to the novel, and finally becoming a translator and editor of Norse and...

Literature in Wales now is produced in two languages. Of these one is Welsh, the country's ancient native tongue, which has an unbroken literary tradition reaching back to the sixth century. But at present (1980) Welsh is spoken by only about twenty...

GWYN JONES, the writer and Viking scholar, sometimes gave the impression that, had he not been a Welshman, he might have been a character out of the Icelandic sagas to which he had devoted so much of his academic career - Eirik the Red,...

Robert Cole Cardiff 22 Swansea 31 Gwyn Jones' medical training gave him an immediate insight into how seriously he was injured. "I think I've broken my neck," the Welsh captain told Jane James, the Cardiff physiotherapist, when she reached his side after...