GOD SAVE WALES!

[Loyalist Dave]

Today is the feast day of Saint David, so a simple explanation would be that it's like St. Patrick's Day, but for the Welsh!

For those of us into Shakespeare, In Henry V, after the victory at Agincourt...

Captain Fluellen: 'I do believe your Majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Davy's day. '
King Henry: [The king laughs through his tears] 'I wear it for a memorable honour. For I am Welsh, you know'.

The Leek, is another word for the daffodil flower as it is known in English. SO..., IF you be Welsh, then wear a daffodil today, as a buttoneer

GOD SAVE WALES

LD

 

[Auldjin]

Prynhawn Da

And with that I have used most of my Welsh, despite (I have been told) the Ap was used in my surname until about 200 years ago.

 

[pbcasterlin]

I wish I could find a daffodil. Waiting for this damn snow to melt. My Paternal Great Grandparents immigrated from Wales.

 

[Auldjin]

My sister brought me a bowl of them from Wales last year just before the virus, they have just flowered again.

 

[Artificer]

For anyone who has a drop of Welsh blood in their veins, this is for you!

Men of Harlech by Charlotte Church - YouTube

My Paternal Grandmother's family were Welsh.

Gus

 

[Treestalker]

My dad's paternal line goes back to Wales, we are supposed to be kin to Llewellyn, I think the Welsh are great folks, good singers, and I love their dragon flag, tempted to put one up by the front gate! God bless Wales and heres a drink to St. David.

 

[Whitworth]

There was a Welshman named "Hywel" in my family woodpile now known as "Howell".

 

[GREENSWLDE]

Hywel, was an often used Forename.. Hywel Morgan is a famous Fly Fisherman in U.K. & the world.

 

[Packrat]

Me wife 's family came from Wales, I bought her a Dragon Flag after a trip to Cardiff, the neighbors think it is Puff the Magic Dragon

 

[Whitworth]

Hywel, was an often used Forename.. Hywel Morgan is a famous Fly Fisherman in U.K. & the world.

One of my friends, a Canadian chap's last name is "Howells". I'm a true "Anglo Saxon Dog", a mongrel of the Isles and the Swartz Wald with a shot of Native American thrown in

 

[JT1200R]

My great grandparents on my mother’s side came from Wales. Lived in Scranton working in the coal mines.

 

[Artificer]

My great grandparents on my mother’s side came from Wales. Lived in Scranton working in the coal mines.

That's why/how a LOT of Welsh came here in the early 19th century, to work the coal mines. My Paternal Grandmother's Welsh Ancestor was hired as a supervisor of a coal mine in that area and in that time period.

Gus

 

[andy52]

Here's a young Welsh lad with a magical voice.
Welsh boy treble Cai Thomas sings Suo Gan - YouTube

 

[JCKelly]

Wishing my Gaellic Cousins well
Jim Kelly, late (very, very late) of Londonderry

 

[tenngun]

I’ll have ancestors cursing me, but I like Whelsh pipes better then Scots

 

[TFoley]

Wishing my Gaellic Cousins well Jim Kelly, late (very, very late) of Londonderry

And the Welsh, too, I hope.

Nid Yw'r Cymry yn Gaeleg, ond Brythonig, cangen hollol wahanol o'r goeden. Y Gymraeg yw iaith wreiddiol yr 'Ynys Fawr' - Prydain Fawr, ers tua saith neu wyth can mlynedd cyn i'r Rhufeiniaid gyrraedd mewn 44 AD.

And for those of you who not, as we say, have the Welsh...

The Welsh are not Gaelic, but Brythonic, a completely different branch of the tree. The Welsh language is the original language of the 'Big Island' - Great Britain, since about seven or eight hundred years before the Romans arrived in 44 AD.

 

[tenngun]

Well sort of. Britain was the land of two distinct peoples. A pre agricultural people, then about three thousand years BC an agricultural people that invaded. The first people seem closely related to the Cro Magnon of Spain-France. The second Indo European related to Italians and Iberians. Then Celtic people invaded. They invaded and drove the early Briton’s north, then went to Ireland. It was from Ireland they invaded Scotland finely absorbing ye last of the original Britons and this was seven centuries after Brits took over Briton. Rome came and didn’t displace, but the Germans came and drove the Briton’s in to Wales or Brittany.

 

[Dibbuk]

Try this for Men of Harlech:

"Zulu" 1964 Movie - Final Battle Including "Men of Harlech" Song. - YouTube

 

[John May]

I can't find the Youtube clip of the Welsh National Anthem being sung by the Welsh crowd at Twickenham but I do remember it makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand to attention!
(born in the UK to a Welsh Mother and an English Father, now married to a 100% Welsh Wife!)

 

[Auldjin]

Try "Land of My Fathers" and Twickenham.