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Re: Calen marth!
- To: Andrew Smith <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Calen marth!
- From: "Raymond A. Brown" <[email protected]>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:43:17 +0000
- Cc: Mart�n Bertagnon <[email protected]>, Sessiwn Kemres <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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DYDD GW^YL DDEWI HAPPUS I CH'HYD!
At 3:44 pm +1300 1/3/99, Andrew Smith wrote:
>1st March, St. David's Day, the national day of Cambria. A day when the
>Kemrese raise the Red Dragon, and wear the leak or the daffodil.
In Cambria *here* the Red Dragon is raised on most days :) But today leeks
& daffodils are worn. Even an 'honorary exile' like myself was wearing a
daffodil today!
>Traditionally the big celebrations begin at sunset on Noeth Dewi Saeth
>(St. David's night), so as not to interrupt Lla Garuisef, or Lent.
>
The Welsh of course are mostly 'Non-Conformist' so Lent has little or no
meaning and David is honored with reasonable sobriety. But the Irish
*here* honor St Patrick rather more strenously and tho they keep Lent, they
see St Patrick's Day most definitely as an interruption :)
Ray.