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The Chronicles

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Artists E. S. G.
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The Chronicles is the first compilation album by American rapper E. S. G. from Houston, Texas. It was released on January 29, 2008 through Scarred 4 Life Entertainment with distribution via Select-O-Hits.

Bangor University: when you start on Welsh identity in Wales?

Feb 16,2020 7:19 am

A medieval historian to investigate "Welshness" and where it came from

daffodils, the hymn sing and the dragons - seen them all, as symbols of "Welshness".

But what is Welshness and where it comes from?

Medieval historian Dr. Rebecca Thomas , a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for the research of the development of the Welsh identity in the Middle Ages .

you will be looking at The First Wales-and Welsh-references in the early literature, and why it exists

"I'm not only interested in if the Welsh said to himself, as a people, but why is that so," Dr. Thomas.

It is generally agreed by historians that the sense of Welsh identity to exist, the by the 12. To find a century, and Dr. Thomas turning to the medieval Latin Chronicles and histories, with evidence, how the identity was constructed.

division of world

she said, The Ninth and 10. Centuries were the "key time" in the construction of identities.

"When the division of The World into different peoples and locating the origins of these peoples," Dr. Thomas says: - The Chronicles and stories, written during this time, you are busy.

There is more to Wales than Welshcakes

Medieval authors claimed that the Welsh originally came from Troy , an idea that is popular in the European continent, with the franc also see themselves as descended from the Trojans.

"And so the Welsh writers were said, the development of a much broader phenomenon," Dr Thomas.

"It seems likely, also, that you are very much aware of the texts produced in other parts of the UK were at the beginning of the speech of England and the English.

"I would like to ask, how important is the contact with The World was, in the shaping of Welsh identity in this time, and consider what they thought the Welsh writer, set the Welshman apart from the other Nations.

"What

When Asher, A Scholar of St. David's, wrote in 893, that king Offa had built a dyke between Mercia and Britannia, from sea to sea - for him the Britannia Wales, Dr. Thomas, has said.

And when Vortigern, a from The Ninth century scholars of Gwynned, contain the names of places in English and Welsh in his Latin text, he referred to the Welsh as "our language".

Dr. Thomas is one of only 53, early career researchers, the community, and the second from Bangor University to receive the award.



bangor university, wales culture, welsh language

Source of news: bbc.com

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