There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud. ~ Gwyn Thomas

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  • Nec alia, ut arbitror, gens quam haec Kambrica, aliave lingua, in die districti examinis coram Judice supremo, quicquid de ampliori contingat, pro hoc terrarum angulo respondebit.
    • Whatever else may come to pass, I do not think that on the Day of Direst Judgement any race other than the Welsh, or any other language, will give answer to the Supreme Judge of all for this small corner of the earth.
      • Gerald of Wales, quoting an unnamed Welshman, in Descriptio Cambriae (1194), Bk. 2, ch. 10; translation by Lewis Thorpe from The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales (1978) p. 274

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All right, I was Welsh, does it matter? … My word for heaven was not yours.
The word for hell had a sharp edge
Put on it by the hand of the wind
Honing, honing with a shrill sound
Day and night. ~ R. S. Thomas
Nothing that Glyn Dwr
Knew was armour against the rain's
Missiles. ~ R. S. Thomas
Even God had a Welsh name:
He spoke to him in the old language;
He was to have a peculiar care
For the Welsh people. ~ R. S. Thomas
  • Years and years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.
  • There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud.
  • All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter?
    I spoke a tongue that was passed on
    To me in the place I happened to be,
    A place huddled between grey walls
    Of cloud for at least half the year.
    My word for heaven was not yours.
    The word for hell had a sharp edge
    Put on it by the hand of the wind
    Honing, honing with a shrill sound
    Day and night. Nothing that Glyn Dwr
    Knew was armour against the rain's
    Missiles. What was descent from him?
  • Even God had a Welsh name:
    He spoke to him in the old language;
    He was to have a peculiar care
    For the Welsh people. History showed us
    He was too big to be nailed to the wall
    Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him
    Between the boards of a black book.
  • You are Welsh, they said;
    Speak to us so    ; keep your fields free
    Of the smell of petrol, the loud roar
    Of hot tractors; we must have peace
    And quietness.
  • Encyclopedic article on Wales at Wikipedia
  • Media related to Wales at Wikimedia Commons
  • Wales travel guide from Wikivoyage
  • The dictionary definition of Wales at Wiktionary
  • Works related to Portal:Wales at Wikisource
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