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Did you know there are Welsh place names, enwau llefydd, outside of Wales?

Cymraeg is a lot more common than you might think on the island of Great Britain! The history of Wales is awash with wonderful words and names that seem exotic to non-Welsh speakers, but all over Great Britain there are towns, villages, hills, rivers, even cities and regions with Old Welsh names! To say nothing of the Gaelic (Gaidhlig), Irish (Gaeilge), Cornish (Kernowek), Manx (Gaelg), Scots, Northumbrian, and Cumbric names, you'd be amazed how many non-English place names exist here.

There are Welsh places in America as well, of course, most famously Bangor, Maine, but the ones in this video have Welsh names because they were named before English was even a language!

Let's have a look at just a few of these wonderful old names in my own old language and old tongue, and find out what they mean!


Some reading:
followthevikings.com/discover/culture/music
earlymusicmuse.com/medieval-harp-development
thinkingonmusic.wordpress.com/tag/isidore-of-seville

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