[Myrddin]

Americanwr ydw i. Dwi yn siarad Cymraeg. Pasg hapus i chi!

I have a favorite song written and performed by Plethyn that describes the conscription of Welshmen into the British Navy to attack Patagonia. Not a happy event. Another favorite song, Down yn Ol, describes the victory over the French at Agincourt.

A humorous tale was recounted to me a few years ago. A Welsh speaking Patagonian traveled to Cardiff in hopes of meeting other Welsh speakers in Wales. The poor man was disappointed to find that there are few Welsh speakers in Cardiff. His alternative language, Spanish, was not of much help either. One must travel north to about Carmarthen to find an abundance of Welsh speakers. Most people a fluent in English and Welsh and will immediately switch to the one that you handle best. The small villages in the center of Wales still have a fair number of Welsh speaking monoglots.

[blam]

There is a plaque at Fort Morgan, at the mouth of Mobile Bay (damn the torpedoes), that commerates the 1170AD landing of Prince Madoc here in Mobile.

[solzhenitsyn]

The small villages in the center of Wales still have a fair number of Welsh speaking monoglots.

Thanks for the new word (monoglot)! I'll have fun with it.

[PoisedWoman]

Ping to some Welsh cousins.

Nice link at #9, blam.

[Gorzaloon]

We ran into quite a bit of it in Snowdonia/Llangollen, etc. Funnily enough, the local BBC relay tower on a nearby mountain had broken, so we could only get a local channel. You guessed it; I have no idea what they were talking about, but it was so cool to hear! Taking the Ffestinog through the mountains, and going through villages like Ddualt and Penrhyn, and crawling around the burial chamber Bryn Celli Ddu is something I shall remember byth bythoedd .

Lovely people, and the most heartbreakingly beautiful place I have ever been.

I'll be back.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I have a small, brass, door knocker that pictures a woman in traditional Welsh costume (tall hat, long skirt) and says “Bettws-y-coed” across the top and “Wales” across the bottom. Can anybody translate?