In recent decades the number of Welsh speakers in the town has increased dramatically.

A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).

There are also a substantial number of Welsh speakers in the Patagonia area of Argentina.

From this point until the end of the century, the Whigs and ( after 1859 ) their successors the Liberal Party, managed to gain a majority of the Westminster Parliamentary seats for Scotland, although these were often outnumbered by the much larger number of English and Welsh Conservatives.

Loomis traced a number of parallels between Medieval Welsh literature and Irish material and the Grail romances, including similarities between the Mabinogions Bran the Blessed and the Arthurian Fisher King, and between Bran's life-restoring cauldron and the Grail.

The bard Iolo Goch (" Red Iolo "), himself a Welsh lord, visited him in the 1390s and wrote a number of odes to Owain, praising Owain's liberality, and writing of Sycharth, " Rare was it there / to see a latch or a lock.

The name Rheged appears regularly as an epithet of a certain Urien in a number of early Welsh poems and royal genealogies.

In some cases those adhering to Catholicism faced capital punishment, and a number of English and Welsh Catholics executed in the 16th and 17th centuries have been canonised by the Catholic Church as Christian martyrs ( see Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation ).

Plaid has the third-largest number of seats in the National Assembly for Wales, after Welsh Labour and the Welsh Conservative & Unionist Party, and participated with the former in the coalition agreement in the Assembly before the 2011 election.

Following Henry VIII's break with Rome and the Pope, Wales for the most part followed England in accepting Anglicanism, although a number of Catholics were active in attempting to counteract this and produced some of the earliest books printed in Welsh.

The results of the 2001 Census showed an increase in the number of Welsh speakers to 21 % of the population aged 3 and older, compared with 18. 7 % in 1991 and 19. 0 % in 1981.

The word " Cofi " () is also used locally in Caernarfon to describe the local Welsh dialect, notable for a number of words not in use elsewhere.

* Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, a Welsh organization responsible for a number of bombing incidents

Lewis gave his radio speech responding to the 1961 census, which showed a decrease in the number of Welsh speakers from 36 % in 1931 to 26 %, out of a population of about 2. 5 million.

Cavanagh and Welsh have also collaborated on a number of screenplays.

The infuriated Henry mutilated a number of Welsh hostages, including two of Owain's sons.

He also had a number of illegitimate sons, who by Welsh law had an equal claim on the inheritance if acknowledged by their father.

In the European Parliament elections of the same year, the party's vote share fell to 17. 4 %, and the reduction in the number of Welsh MEPs saw its representation reduced to one.

In the Welsh Assembly election of 3 May 2007, Plaid Cymru increased its number of seats from 12 to 15, regaining Llanelli, gaining one additional list seat and winning the newly created constituency of Aberconwy.

A number of legendary bards in Welsh mythology have been preserved in medieval Welsh literature such as the Red Book of Hergest, the White Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin and the Book of Taliesin.

A number of references to Gwydion can be found in early Welsh poetry.

A number of references to Lleu can be found in early Welsh poetry.

The range of the later poetry is considerably narrower, but the number of successful poems is far greater.

He wrote many theological and dogmatic treatises, as well as a few grammatical works and a number of poems.

Her acquaintance with him parallels her writing a number of poems, which may suggest she fell in love with him.

The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.

As a boy he knew Virgil by heart and composed a number of poems in Italian and Latin.

Catullus's poems have been preserved in an anthology of 116 carmina ( the actual number of poems may slightly vary in various editions ), which can be divided into three parts according to their form: sixty short poems in varying metres, called polymetra, eight longer poems, and forty-eight epigrams.

The polymetra and the epigrams can be divided into four major thematic groups ( ignoring a rather large number of poems that elude such categorization ):

Above all other qualities, Catullus seems to have valued venustas, or charm, in his acquaintances, a theme which he explores in a number of his poems.

No fewer than 545 titles, ranging from satirical poems, political and religious pamphlets and volumes have been ascribed to Defoe ( note: in their Critical Bibliography ( 1998 ), Furbank and Owens argue for the much smaller number of 276 published items ).

" Also in 1990, Thomas McFarland stated, " Judging by the number and variety of critical effort to interpret their meaning, there may be no more palpably symbolic poems in all of English literature than Kubla Khan and The Ancient Mariner.

He wrote a large number of poems, distinguished by the purity and excellence of their style.

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

The fourth period spans 730 – 760 and includes the work of the last great poet of this collection, the compiler Ōtomo no Yakamochi himself, who not only wrote many original poems but also edited, updated and refashioned an unknown number of ancient poems.

In addition to Biblical paraphrases are a number of original religious poems, mostly lyrical ( non-narrative ).

Mainstream critics further claim that if William Shakespeare did not write the plays and poems, the number of people needed to suppress this information would have made their attempts highly unlikely to succeed.

However, unlike the cited examples, a number of Oxford's poems did appear in printed miscellanies in his lifetime, and the first poem published under Oxford's name was printed in 1572, 17 years before Puttenham's book was published.

Lines of poems are often organized into stanzas, which are denominated by the number of lines included.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

In traditional English-language poems, stanzas can be identified and grouped together because they share a rhyme scheme or a fixed number of lines ( as in distich / couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain / quintain, sestet ).

Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through 1942, and wrote many poems there, including a number that directly address or reflect the Shetland environment such as " On A Raised Beach ", which was inspired by a visit to West Linga.