From "Math ap Mathonwy", summarized and mangled for your convenience ( Read more... )

I've been doing some heavy reading lately--the kind of stuff that gets written because the writer is perishable. OK, I admit it, I've been reading poetry. In Middle Welsh. Which I don't actually speak. Sometimes the poetry is clearer and easier to read than the modern English prose that explains it ( Read more... )

Repeat after me: Caer Arianrhod is Corona Borealis, not Aurora Borealis. Corona, Aurora. They are different, see? Aurora is a goddess--a Roman goddess who is not the least bit Welsh. Not even when it's not unusual is she Welsh. Not even when she is not going gently into that good night is she Welsh. Corona means crown, and like most ( Read more... )