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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just passing the Craig y Dinas hillfort snd settlement on it’s rocky outcrop in Dyffryn Ardudwy with Moelfre in shadow behind it #HillfortsWednesday

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Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#WyrdWednesday In the tale of Peredur, the Mabinogion's version of the Perceval myth, there is an interesting episode that is quite particular to this Welsh telling of the story. When Peredur arrives at the Hall of the Sons of the King of Suffering, he finds only women present.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was translated by William Owen Pughe, (pub. 1819) whose scholarship was very eccentric, so even the translation must have been weird.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Borrow's Welsh must have been quite weird as he initially learnt it from a stableboy and from the translation of Paradise Lost. People keep thinking he's a Breton or a Spaniard when they talk to him. And then when he gets to south Wales he starts criticising the poor quality of south Wales Welsh.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I should have included an emoji at the end of that sentence.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A few of those things would be more interesting experiences if we could still view them as pagan survivals.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Does anyone have any idea why Shipton is like this about trans people and rights?

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But Celtic also has the meaning of the modern Celtic countries.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's used in lots of business names, but probably edged out by Red Dragon.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Uchel yw pren y bydoedd A Medi ydyw'r mis Y plyg yr haul mawr aeddfed Ei ystwyth gainc yn is. A than ei thrymlwyth hithau Mae cainc o'r pren sy'n hŷn Yn gŵyro trwy'r llonyddwch I lawr at galon dyn. A rhwng tymhorau daear Ymrithia amgen wedd. Ynghanol oesol ryfel Mihangel y mae hedd.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#StandingStoneSunday A flying visit today to the stunning C9th-10th AD Nevern high cross, very likely standing on or close to its original spot on an early Christian site. One the great treasures of Pembrokeshire 🤩 📷 My own

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🌿Rowynn Ellis @rowynnellis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From the 24th of October to the 8th of November Bodnant Garden is running a special Calan Gaeaf 'Welsh Monsters and Mythical Beasts' themed art trail! www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/...

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WJ Gruffydd (1881-1954) was a poet, true, but not really Victorian, and he was also Professor of Celtic at Cardiff Uni.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I always photograph memorials to people that you find in remote locations. In this case on top of Parys Mountain, Anglesey. They’re part of the funerary & ritual archaeology of the future. In this case, given the date of death (July 2020), you wonder if Kirsty (33) was a Covid victim.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An amazing set of carved stone heads here.. potentially some date to later prehistoric or Roman times 🧐🤔

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How can the earth be hollow when it's flat? Doesn't make sense.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And Mabon ap Gwynfor is still an SM in the Senedd.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'd forgotten about him, I have one of his CDs somewhere.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Weirdly, there's a food festival at Caldicot Castle this weekend named Mabon, with some storytelling etc.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My video explaining about the terms for the equinox in Welsh and why the neo-Pagan autumn equinox festival of Mabon was invented in the 1970s. Oddly enough, there really was a Welsh holiday named after Mabon, but it was something very different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCxM...

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There really was a Welsh holiday named Mabon but it wasn't what you think.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The odd thing is that there was actually a holiday named after Mabon that had nothing to do with the current neo-Pagan name for the Autumn Equinox.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cross Stones, Llanddowror: In the playing field beyond the churchyard, are what looks like two stubs of once larger stones. Bearing crosses, the crosses are thought to be of 7th-9th century date. More detailed photos are on our page. 📷 TheCaptain More: www.megalithi...

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On a wet morning in Cymru/Wales, imagine stepping into the spacious comfort of Llys Rhosyr, the C13th royal court of the Princes of Gwynedd on Ynys Mon/Anglesey 😮🤩 This stunning Tolkein-esque reconstruction can be visited at St Fagans museum, near Cardiff 📷 My own, 2026

A colourful high-ceilinged hall with painted timber posts

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On a grey & autumnal morning in Cymru/Wales, let's step back to a hot 🔥 August afternoon on the Pembrokeshire coast 🥰 Walk inside the extraordinary St Govan's Chapel, a medieval building on the site of an earlier structure, built in the nook of a coastal cliff 😮 🎥 My own, no sound

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was imagining Farage not being able to remember which was which.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Was he 'Welsh Dave' or was that the other one?"

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When the head was viewed and it was known that it was not Owain's head, one of the King's court sang: Madyn the lame spoke falsely about the lord of the Glyn because no wart was found on the forehead of the old grey man. [Panton MS 11 (2/2)

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

After Owain Glyndŵr's death, Madyn brought a head to the King saying that it was Owain's head, and the King asked the Welsh whether they would recognize Owain's head, and one of them said that he would know if he could see it because there was a wart on the crown. (1/2)

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snowded.bsky.social @snowded.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is Glyndŵr's day in Cymru (Wales) and in celebration today's post looks at a key aspect of democracy through the lives of three Welsh princes and two Welsh politicians. thecynefin.co/damned-magic...

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No fifteenth-century bard wrote Owain Glyndŵr a marwnad. He simply vanished after 1415, and the poets who came after him, Lewys Glyn Cothi among them,

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Casaf rholbren wyd gennyf "To me you are the most vile rolling pin" Need a laugh? Here's Dafydd ap Gwilym's "Cywydd y Gal", in which the poet castigates his penis for its bad behavior. (choose Poem 85 for full text and translation) dafyddapgwilym.net/eng/3win.htm #medievalsky

A copy of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poem to his penis, in National Library of Wales, Peniarth MS 49, fol. 101v. The latter part of the poem has been struck out with a single angled line.

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Cenric @cenricc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bore Da - Good Morning Robin Goch bratiog yn yr ardd nôl ym mis Awst A ragged Robin in the garden back in August Cariad mawr o Gymru! ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Seems like a pretty bleak vision for the future to me.

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Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Building them near housing to take advantage of the heat they produce.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of the largest coastal promontory forts in Cymru/Wales for #HillfortsWednesday 🤩🌊 The epic Deer Park fort at Martin's Haven, south-west Pembrokeshire - a centuries-old embarkation point for the islands, Ireland & beyond Did Pytheas the Greek ever stop here? 🤔🛶 📷 My own, yesterday

A huge coastal headland seen from a boat across the sea, with wide blue skies above

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#TombTuesday Lligwy Burial Chamber is a Neolithic burial chamber on Ynys Môn. It consists of a circle of upright stones, made into a low chamber by a very large roof slab estimated at 25 tonnes. Excavation in 1909 found the remains of some 15 to 30 people & pottery. #Archaeology

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