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Gerald of Wales ( Giraldus Cambrensis ) in the 13th-century relates the strange story of a marble footbridge leading from the church over the Alun rivulet in St Davids.
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Gerald of Wales relates how in 1182 the castle was seized back by the Welsh.
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Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald of Wales, speaking of the bows used by the Welsh men of Gwent, says: " They are made neither of horn, ash nor yew, but of elm ; ugly unfinished-looking weapons, but astonishingly stiff, large and strong, and equally capable of use for long or short shooting.
Gerald of Wales commented on the power of the Welsh longbow in the 12th century:
* Paget, Gerald ( 1977 ) The Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.
Rhys gave Gerald and Archbishop Baldwin a great deal of assistance when they visited Wales to raise troops for the crusade in 1188, and Gerald several times refers to his " kindness " and says that Rhys accompanied them all the way from Cardigan to the northern border of Ceredigion " with a liberality peculiarly praiseworthy in so illustrious a prince ".
St David's Metropolitan Status as an archbishopric was later supported by Bernard, Bishop of St David's, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gerald of Wales.
According to Gerald of Wales, the only witness to chronicle the expedition, it is a disaster in which money is wasted on alcohol and the Irish chieftains are scorned into uniting against a common enemy.
Their nests had not been seen and it was believed that they grew by transformations of goose barnacles, an idea that became prevalent from around the 11th century and noted by Bishop Giraldus Cambrensis ( Gerald of Wales ) in Topographia Hiberniae ( 1187 ).
Forty years after these events, the scholar, Gerald of Wales, in a rare quote from these times, wrote what Owain Gwynedd said to his troops on the eve of battle:
Gerald of Wales ( c. 1146 – c. 1223 ), also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times.
1146 at Manorbier Castle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, he was of mixed Norman and Welsh descent ; he is also known as Gerald de Barri.
Manorbier Castle, birthplace of Gerald of Wales
Gerald was son of William FitzOdo de Barry ( or Barri ), the common ancestor of the Barry family in Ireland and one of the most powerful Anglo-Norman barons in Wales at that time.
Having thus demonstrated his usefulness, Gerald was selected to accompany the Archbishop of Canterbury, Baldwin of Forde, on a tour of Wales in 1188, the object being a recruitment campaign for the Third Crusade.
Gerald returned, and his cause was now supported by the Princes of Wales, most notably Llywelyn the Great, and Gruffydd ap Rhys II, while King John, frequently in conflict with the Welsh, warmly espoused the cause of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
After this long struggle, the chapter of St. David's deserted Gerald, and having been obliged to leave Wales, he fled to Rome.
Gerald maintained that fear of the effect that his appointment would have on the national politics in Wales had prevented his appointment.
Gerald spent the remainder of his life in academic study, most likely in Lincoln, producing works of devotional instruction and politics, and revising the works on Ireland and Wales he had written earlier in his life.
Finally, in Descriptio Cambriae, Gerald penned the following words that give so much pride to Welsh singers of today, especially those who participate in the immensely popular Cymanfaoedd Canu ( hymn-singing festivals ) held throughout Wales and North America:
* Gerald of Wales was 4th in the series of 8 by Nicholas Crane in Great British Journeys
James Goldman's novel Myself As Witness is written from Gerald of Wales ' point of view, though in the novel he is referred to as Giraldus Cambrensis.
* Gerald of Wales, The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales tr.
Gerald and Giraldus
The very minor remains of a mediaeval castle ( known variously as Castell Deudraeth, Castell Gwain Goch and Castell Aber Iâ ) are in the woods just outside the village, recorded by Giraldus Cambrensis ( Gerald of Wales ) in 1188.
Arnulf built a castle at Pembroke in West Wales, described by Giraldus Cambrensis as a " slender fortress of turf and stakes " under the command of one of his young officers, Gerald FitzWalter ( aka Gerald de Windsor ), who held it for Arnulf in the face of the great Welsh uprising of 1093.
It is described in Giraldus Cambrensis or Gerald of Wales ' Itinerarium Cambriae (" Journey through Wales ", 1191 ).
* Giraldus Cambrensis ( Gerald of Wales ), medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times.
His translation of the De consolatione philosophiae of Boëthius is preceded by a letter to Philip IV in which he enumerates his earlier works, two of which are lost: De spirituelle amitié from the De spirituals amicitia of Aelred of Rievaulx ( d. 1166 ), and the Livre des merveilles d ' Hirlande from the Topographia Hibernica, or De Mirabilibus Hiberniae of Giraldus Cambrensis ( Gerald de Barri ).
Gerald and Cambrensis
Gerald Cambrensis, Gerald of Wales son of Nest, was historiographer royal five hundred years before, on a journey of conquest to Ireland, the story of which, one of the finest works of literature in the Welsh language.
In 1146 Gerald of Wales, the great twelfth century scholar known as Geraldus Cambrensis was born at the castle.
Gerald and relates
Gerald of Wales states that Geoffrey was reluctant to accept York, but another chronicler, Benedict of Peterborough relates that Geoffrey quickly took control of the archiepiscopal estates.
Gerald of Wales, in his Topographia Hibernica ( 1187 ), relates that he was told by certain seamen that, having taken refuge from a storm off the coast of Connacht, they saw two men, long-haired and scantily clad, approaching in a slender wickerwork boat covered in skins.
Gerald and strange
He told the nephew, Gerald, that he had given Paynter a hypodermic injection and proceeded by asking strange questions about the servants.
Two survivors are found aboard: Dr. Iris Ryan ( Naura Hayden ) and Colonel Tom O ' Bannion ( Gerald Mohr ), his arm covered by a strange alien growth.
After the call she chats to the gardener, George, and during the course of the conversation is told two strange things ; Gerald has told George that Alix is going to London the next day and he doesn't know when she'll be returning ( although she knows nothing about this ) and that the cost of the cottage was two thousand pounds.
Gerald and story
Gerald tells the story of a banquet at Hereford in 1186 where Rhys sat between two members of the Clare family.
Gerald Duff, novelist and short story writer, has set several of his works in the territory of the Sabine, including the stories " Texas Wherever You Look ," " The Way a Blind Man Tracks Light ," and " Redemption ".
* Zaharoff's adventures in the arms trade ( particularly the machine gun sales ) resemble those of the main character, Hector Sarek, in Gerald Kersh's short story " Comrade Death ".
* Fun with Dick and Jane ( 1977 film ) ( with David Giler & Jerry Belson, from a story by Gerald Gaiser )
The story begins with Jessie Burlingame and her husband Gerald in the bedroom of their secluded cabin in western Maine, where they have gone for an off-beat romantic weekend.
The winner of the 1950 Academy Award for Best Animated Short, Gerald McBoing-Boing is the story of a little boy who speaks through sound effects instead of spoken words.
The story describes one Gerald McCloy, who at 2 years old begins " talking " in the form of sound effects, his first word being the titular " boing boing.
Gerald du Maurier, who was already playing George Darling ( and the brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies ), persuaded Barrie to let him take the additional role instead, a casting decision that has since been replicated in many stage and film productions of the Peter Pan story.
Most postwar writers, including Ron Roizen, the French historian Dr. Alain Cuenot, and the American investigator Gerald Schwab, maintain that Moro-Giafferi fabricated the story about a homosexual relationship with vom Rath after the murder, in order to assist in Grynszpan's defence.
* William Lowther, Iraq and the Supergun: Gerald Bull: the true story of Saddam Hussein's Dr Doom ( Macmillan, London 1991 ) ( Pan paperback, London 1992 ) ISBN 0-330-32119-6
In 1951, UPA scored another hit with Gerald McBoing-Boing, based on a story by Dr. Seuss.
The story is the familiar Dickens tale with Mr. Magoo ( voiced by Jim Backus ) cast as Scrooge, and Gerald McBoing-Boing ( in a rare speaking role ) as Tiny Tim.
The movie was adapted by Gerald C. Duffy ( titles ), Winifred Dunn, Casey Robinson ( uncredited ) and Adela Rogers St. Johns from the story by Rupert Hughes.
Lincoln historian Gerald J. Prokopowicz has called this story a " fantasy ".
They also agree that both Gerald and Mary are hiding something ; Gerald stubbornly refuses to budge from his story that he was out for a walk, and Mary is faking a severe illness to avoid talking to anyone.
* Gerald Edelman telling his life story at Web Of Stories
* Sid – Sid is often seen as Gerald's " lead-in " man ; when Gerald is about to tell another of the Urban Legends, Sid introduces him, usually mentioning how the story has been passed " from kid generation to kid generation ".
On July 17, 1980 the Sun-Times erroneously ran a front-page story proclaiming presidential candidate Ronald Reagan had selected former president Gerald Ford as his running mate.
Lottick's suicide was profiled in a Time cover story that was highly critical of Scientology, " The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power ", which received the Gerald Loeb Award, and later appeared in Reader's Digest.
* The Marxist political philosopher Gerald Cohen used the story of the Shmoo to illustrate his objections to capitalism in an episode of Opinions.
Gerald M. Boyd, a St. Louis native and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times who was one of a few hundred black students at the University of Missouri in the early 1970s, recalls hearing Gaines ' story early in his time there, when he was confronted by open displays of racial prejudice such as the university's " Confederate Rock ".
The story jumps to 200 years in the past, when NDR ( his serial number forgotten ) is brought to the home of Gerald Martin ( referred to as Sir ) as a robot butler.
Joseph Conrad portrayed Fouché briefly in his short story The Duel ( 1924 ), which was filmed in 1977 as The Duellists, written by Gerald Vaughan-Hughes and directed by Ridley Scott.
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