Welsh language traditional music has had a bit of an expansionist phase in the last twenty years or so, which means we must look with suspicion at certain tune titles given in Welsh on CD covers, or in tune books. Because we all have an idea of the history of Wales in its culture, we naturally associate the Welsh language with greater antiquity than English than English can boast. However, a lot of the tunes have had the Welsh titles added quite recently, and not necessarily with any particular historical basis. An unnamed tune in an 18th century MS book, for example, may be given a Welsh name in 1990, and the unwary may assume on coming across the tune that it has born this name for some considerable time. It ain't necessarily so.
    The tunes are also being currently played in some very wierd styles, often of a sort of "pan-Celtic" type with no connection to any known tradition. Though, of course, as there is no record of the traditonal style, it is up to each of us to make our own way through the murk.