While Iolo the radical thinker and composer of Unitarian hymns was
swiftly forgotten, the eisteddfod and gorsedd became major vehicles
for the development of a Welsh national consciousness in the
Victorian age. His 'theoretical history', which gave Welsh cultural
teachings an antiquity beyond all other nations, became hotly
contested when professional philologists and historians like John
Morris-Jones began to apply their own scientific approach to Welsh
language and history. Yet biographical writings on Iolo Morganwg
show him to have acquired the status of a saint during the larger
part of the nineteenth century. Anecdotes were woven around him and
his family, his biographer was honoured for writing his 'vita', and
reliques of 'Old Iolo' were given special attention. Even when,
towards the end of the period, his forgeries became well-known,
many Welsh people were more than prepared to forgive him because
his 'sins' had been committed as acts of patriotism.
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