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Today is St David's Day. Who was this chap?
Dewi (Anglicised centuries later to 'David') lived in the Age of Saints (the 'Dark Ages' in England).
He was born in Caerfai, #Wales into an aristocratic family and founded a Celtic monastic community at Glyn Rhosyn.
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Dewi (Anglicised centuries later to 'David') lived in the Age of Saints (the 'Dark Ages' in England).
He was born in Caerfai, #Wales into an aristocratic family and founded a Celtic monastic community at Glyn Rhosyn.
@jdmccafferty
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📷Man vyi
17c diarist Samuel Pepys noted how Welsh celebrations in London for Saint David's Day would spark wider counter-celebrations amongst the English: life-sized effigies of Welshmen were symbolically lynched.
Ref: Samuel Pepys' Diary 1667 - pepys.info/1667/1667mar.h…
📷Man vyi
17c diarist Samuel Pepys noted how Welsh celebrations in London for Saint David's Day would spark wider counter-celebrations amongst the English: life-sized effigies of Welshmen were symbolically lynched.
Ref: Samuel Pepys' Diary 1667 - pepys.info/1667/1667mar.h…
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In the poem Armes Prydein (The Prophesy of Britain), composed in the early to mid-10c, the author prophesies that the Cymry (the #Welsh people) will unite and join an alliance of fellow-Celts to repel the Anglo-Saxons, under the banner of Saint David.
Dydd gwyl Dewi hapus!
In the poem Armes Prydein (The Prophesy of Britain), composed in the early to mid-10c, the author prophesies that the Cymry (the #Welsh people) will unite and join an alliance of fellow-Celts to repel the Anglo-Saxons, under the banner of Saint David.
Dydd gwyl Dewi hapus!
