“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
At exactly 0:28 in the video below you will see a name across the map. De Hen Bartia. I might know more Medieval Welsh than I thought. Ravens of Dinefwr centres around a family from Dinefwr in Deheubarth. Breaking down the words WITHOUT le goo goo…I translated DEHENBARTIA as THE OLD PART. Strange that this […]
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I adore this book. As you can see above…my copy is almost stuck together with sticky notes. These are all MY rewrites of the history from a different point of view. Just because I disagree with his conclusions, does NOT mean that I reject his book. FACT! I’m having an AbFab Day :o)
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Elisiv of Kiev has been on my list of important subjects since December 2018. The Many Hidden Mysteries of Grand Tartaria Below is not the perfect video for my point but it’ll do. MY DNA. I’ve talked about quite a bit : 36% Scottish, 29% Scandinavian….1% Russian. As we are talking about almost 1,000 years […]
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The Mabinogion has played such a HUGE part in my past decade and a bit more of research for Ravens of Dinefwr. It helped me (along with N.C.) to weld the MSM History of Wales/Ireland/Scotland/The Normans/The Crusades with a new chronology and story. I’ve watched Cerys a few times – she’s my go-to-source for pronunciation […]
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Watching these kind of programmes fascinate me in so many ways. This Mystery 15th Century House that was dismantled brick by brick is an enigma. I’ve never been to Pembrokeshire but know a little about it through my research into the Ravens of Dinefwr. Nest ferch Rhys was the older sister of Gruffydd and Hywel. […]
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A short lesson in languages and history and timelines. I called my both my Grandmothers NAN. In Italian she is Nonna. You can use Nanny, Granny, Nanna etc There is a Welsh Female Saint called Saint Non/Nun. From Pembrokeshire. She was the mother of Saint David – patron saint of Wales. She was raped and […]
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Mmmn! yt is playing wicked games with me again! I started searching for Lovejoy clips (my ULTIMATE favourite EVER TV show) and The Belly aka Portobello Road. I went there once as a teenager with BFF and she bought me a present that I still have. So. I start watching a today clip of Portobello […]
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I half watched a yt video today that made me spit feathers!!! It mentioned Iolo Morganwg and then dismissed him straight away with the very long-running MS History sentence…“but he faked every antiquarian document he used.” I beg to differ! No surprise there. If you don’t know already, I’ve spent many years researching 11th/12th cc […]
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Different spelling. Same name. Rhys ap Tewdwr, King of Deheubarth was killed in battle 1093. If I give myself the entitled title Doctor…Will I become yt “rich&famous” ? No offence, Dr Kat :o( Why is the Heir to the BRITISH Throne now known as HRH The PRINCE of WALES?
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From a very young age, I wanted to be an Egyptologist when I grew up. I’m glad that I never had the chance but it didn’t stop my fascination with Egypt throughout many years of researching their “ancient” history. What does that have to do with Scota? Well – according to legend Scota (from whom […]
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ForThoseWhoDoNotUnderstandWiki : Twmbarlwm For decades now, my F-i-L has repeatedly stated that when he dies, he wants to be buried – VERTICALLY – on top of Twmbarlwm. To this day, he has NO Idea what Me, Myself, I take from this :o(
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Well. As someTHING out there in internet fakeland has decided that it’s now time to completely destroy one of the very best Myth & Legend texts EVER written – may I humbly suggest that y’all read ALL of the above named writer’s works ? Wiki : Evangeline Walton A beautiful friend of mine introduced me […]
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