Derwydd
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Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
Diolch yn fawr! We would probably say "Ymlaen Cymru!" (Forward, Wales!) but the sentiment is much appreciated!...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
Hehe - given that the oldest extant poem in Welsh concerns the efforts of the Welsh-speaking king of a Welsh-speaking kingdom centred on Edinburgh, attempting to drive the Saxons out of a Welsh-speaking kingdom in what is now Yorkshire, with...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
(This is my 3rd time trying to submit a comment. When I type, I am apparently signed in. When I submit my comment only a moment later, I'm told my session has expired). Claiming that tribal mythology about an ancestral...
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Commented on A world-building puzzler
You might want to do a bit more reading up about the Druids. Even their enemies attested to their ability to remember vast quantities of poetry (and we're talking Homeric, 'Iliad'-length poems), law, and natural science. They were the arbiters...
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Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
I wonder if we'll ever reach it? The UK government seem - whilst loudly opposing it - to be doing their best to make sure that Scotland votes for independence in 2014. Scots have already been promised that if they...