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Cymru am byth" ("Wales forever") is a popular Welsh motto. [26] " Pleidiol Wyf i'm Gwlad" ("I am true to my country"), taken from the National Anthem of Wales, appears on the 2008 Royal Badge of Wales, [27] [28] the Welsh Seal [29] used during the reign of Elizabeth II and on the edge of £1 coins that depict Welsh symbols. [30]
The picture featured regularly in Welsh-language publications, including in Y Ford Gron ('The Round Table') in 1933, as print copies sold via the Urdd in 1937, and in the Cymru Fydd calendar in the 1950s. In 1942 it was described by Yr Aelwyd ('The Hearth') as "one of the most beautiful pictures of the religious life of Wales in old times .." [2]
There is a Welsh-language online news service which publishes news stories in Welsh called Golwg360 ('360 [degree] view'). As of March 2021, there were 58 local Welsh language community newspapers, known as Papurau Bro, in circulation. [89]
Welsh is an official language in Wales and Irish is an official language of Ireland and of the European Union. Welsh is the only Celtic language not classified as endangered by UNESCO. The Cornish and Manx languages became extinct in modern times but have been revived. Each now has several hundred second-language speakers.
-Elfydd: The Earth; the realm of humans -Annwn: The Otherworld; the realm(s) of the gods.Depending on the source, this could be a more typical Indo-European underworld (i.e. a realm below the earth), or the "deep" areas within the natural realm (e.g. deep within the woods, as with the First Branch of The Mabinogion, or within/near lakes, e.g. the Arthurian Lady of the Lake, Ceridwen in Hanes ...
Giants (Welsh: cewri) feature prominently in Welsh folklore and mythology.Among the most notable are Bendigeidfran fab Llyr, a mythological king of Britain during the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, Idris Gawr of Cader Idris, and Ysbaddaden Bencawr, the chief antagonist of the early Arthurian tale How Culhwch won Olwen.
The poem to the moon contains the only clue to the dating of this group, a reference to the storm having thrown his ship onto tir Harri, "Henry's land". This was interpreted by Ifor Williams and Thomas Roberts as meaning England under the rule of Henry IV , whose accession in 1399 would on this reading mark the earliest date the poems could ...
Tylwyth Teg (Middle Welsh for "Fair Family"; [1] Welsh pronunciation: [ˈtəlʊi̯θ teːg]) is the most usual term in Wales for the mythological creatures corresponding to the fairy folk of Welsh and Irish folklore Aos Sí. Other names for them include Bendith y Mamau ("Blessing of the Mothers"), Gwyllion and Ellyllon. [2]