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Welsh History
Welsh history has been traced back to the Ice Age. Several groups – such as the Celtic Britons and the Romans – ruled the part of Britain called Wales. It became a part of the Kingdom of England in the 16th century.
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Who was Owain Glyndwr's mother?
His father was Gruffydd Fychan II and his mother was Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn.
Where did the ship Mimosa sail to from Liverpool in 1865?
Welsh emigrants travelled to South America in 1865 on board the clipper ship Mimosa, establishing a settlement in Patagonia (Argentina) called "Y Wladfa", of which the first town was called Rawson. Several thousand Welsh-speaking residents now live in the general area.
What was wales called before wales?
Well , originally it wouldn't have had an English alternative (Wales) and would have always been Cymru (I think)
In the same way , while England had complete power over us , they also forced us to change many on the towns names - this is why some towns have English names , and almost all towns have an English alternative (e.g Cardiff = Caerdydd)
Another opinion:The Welsh people are called Cymry. The Romans called Wales Cambria. The word may derive from Old Welsh kombrogà (compatriots). Another opinion:"Wales" comes from Wealhas a Germanic word meaning "foreigner" or something similar and was given by Germanic people to their neighbours who had previously been living under the Romans - for example Wallonia in Belgium (the French speaking bit) and Wallachia in Romania. The Welsh only began calling themselves "Cymry" and their land "Cymru" in the Middle Ages. Prior to this they had universally called themselves Bryttaniait meaning "Britons" and their island home was called Ynys Prydein, or the Isle of Britain. In the Dark Ages following the end of the Roman Occupation what we know as Wales was made up of numerous small kingdoms and a concept of "Wales" did not exist, people would have considered the geographical portions of Wales as part of Gwynedd or Powys et c.The name "Cambria" is latin and may be a derrivation of an earlier Welsh word something like Kambrwg. In Welsh legend the island of Britain was divided at some point with a king called Kamber map Brwth inheriting the mountainous west now known as Wales which was afterwards named in his honour.
The names "Britain" and "Britons" (and variations of those words) was first recorded by the Greeks in about 325BC as Prettanike or Î Ïεττανοι. This appears to derrive from a native name for the land and people at the time; Pretani - the origins of which are confusing but according to ancient Welsh legend may derive from an ancient God or King called Bryt or Brwth (Latin: Brutus) who is remembered for leading his followers to the island and it was named or rather, renamed in his honour.
Various Roman and Greek geographies (such as Pliny, Caesar and others) state that the "Pretannic" or "Britannic" islands were anciently called "Albion" (Ἀλβίων) or insula Albionum. This may come from the Latin word Albus meaning "white". Welsh chroniclers writing in the 12th Century record the name Y Wen Ynys (meaning The White Island or The Fair Island) as the original name for the country. Some experts assert that Albion is a distortion of the Celtic words Alw-ion meaning something like "beautiful enclosure".
With all this, history becomes legend and legend becomes myth and the further back you go the more sketchy it is!
Welsh rabbit is a joke at the expense of the Welsh since it contains no rabbit What is it?
Toasted cheese
Some begin the ceremony on April 30th in the evening, and rumpus around 'til the next morning when all share Beltane Bannocks, an oatmeal hoe cake of sorts, with eggs, milk and bacon. The Day itself begins during the morning of May 1st, with little cups of tea & lovely little Bannocks. Ladies all washing and dressing for the May Pole Dance, which can be performed by children or ladies and gentlemen. While the ribbons may be any colors, generally, ladies/girls hold the white, and males hold the red as they dance the ribbons around the pole. Pagans often hold ceremony all weekend, depending upon the C.E. timing of the day. Blessing of children occurs, weddings and handfastings are celebrated. Spring is well on her way into Summer. Blessings, Paula Sarah
What are some Mexican wedding traditions?
for a catholic wedding you use arras which are the dimes, lazo used for unity; uniting the two, cojines which are cushions for you to use while kneeling at the altar, and using the bible and rosary in place of your bo uquet while at the altar and using the bouquet for the processional and recessional.
What does a traditional welsh house look like?
Old peasant houses in Wales were thatched mud huts with earthen floors and a fire / cooking place in the middle, and a wooden sleeping area raised on stilts. They were either circular or rectangular. The only ones left now are in re-enactment sites such as Cosmeston Medieval Village.
Other types of traditional house are cottages and farmhouses built of stone or a timber frame, with a thatched roof. Some have a half-storey at the top with dormer windows peeking out from the thatch. One well known type is the Welsh Long House.
In mid-Wales, especially near the English border - an area heavily influenced by the English, there are a lot of oak-framed houses. The oak structure is exposed like a grid on the outside, and the panels are either rendered or bricked up.
More recently, and especially in industrialised areas such as South Wales, are long rows of terraced houses with slate roofs, which follow the contours of the valleys. When brick was expensive, they were built of stone with brick corners ("quoins"). When bricks became cheaper, they were built of brick with stone corners.
When was llywelyn ein llyw olaf born?
Llywelyn ap Gruffydd or Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf (c. 1223 - 11 December 1282)-meaning Llywelyn, Our Last Leader-was the last prince of an independent Wales before its conquest by Edward I of England (also known as Edward Longshanks). He is sometimes called Llywelyn III of Gwynedd or Llywelyn II of Wales.
What defenses does Conwy Castle have?
Conwy was built during the reign of Edward I between 1283 and 1289 as part of the 'iron ring' of castles to contain the Welsh. The strength of the castle was its rough stone ediface high on a rock guarding the Conwy estuary.
What is snob or snobby in Welsh?
snob1. crechyn n.m. snob n.m.f. (snobiaid) snoben (female) n.f.(snobiaid) snobyn (male) n.m. (snobiaid) hen drwyn cmb.
What is the main religion in Wales?
The Presbyterian Church of Wales is the largest denomination, followed by The Church in Wales ( Anglican), with the Catholic Church the third largest.
We do not really know who built the first castle, when the first castle was built, or even what castle it was.
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When was Llandudno pier built?
The present pier was built in 1876-77 and opened to the public on 1 August 1877. A landwards extension was opened in 1884 and a new landing-stage was added in 1891. This landing-stage was totally rebuilt in 1969.
Were people free in middle ages?
People in villages in the medieval times had little freedom. There were people called freedman, and people called villeins (yes, that is spelt right). Villeins had no freedom whatsoever. If they wanted to work, they could but they would get payed little wages, if they didn't want to work, they had no choice but to work the minimum of one day a week; if this was the case, and they only worked one day a week then they wouldn't get payed for it. If you were a villein, you would have to ask the lords permission to get married, and you would have to ask his permission to eat or share the bread you have made,even if you did make it yourself.
If you were a freedman, it was completely different, you could get married to whoever and whenever you wanted, and would not have to ask anybodys permission. You could work, but you didn't have to work, and also you could eat the bread you made without permission, and you didnt even have to make the bread you could buy it- unlike the villeins-.# Hope that helped x :)
The majority of Welsh residents are nominal Anglicans who follow the Church in Wales or Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru.
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Where was Llywelyn the Great from?
Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, later known as Llwywelyn the Great, was born in the former castle at Dolwyddelan, now vanished. When his father, Iorweth, died he was probably taken to Powys to his mother's family when his uncles took power in Gwynedd. There has been speculation that he went to Shropshire but this argument has mostly been refuted now.
Llywelyn returned to fight for Gwynedd in his late teens and successfully gained control of the lands that should have reverted to him on his father's death. Gerald of Wales wrote that he was only fourteen when he fought his uncles, but he was proabably a little older and was flattering his patron.
What happened to Catrin ferch Owain Glyndwr?
I believe that she was sent a nunnery, and told nothing of her ancestry - dying there decades later.
