Erec and Enide and Cligès are tales of courtly love with Arthur's court as their backdrop, demonstrating the shift away from the heroic world of the Welsh and Galfridian Arthur, while Yvain, the Knight of the Lion features Yvain and Gawain in a supernatural adventure, with Arthur very much on the sidelines and weakened.

The Minoan Brotherhood was founded in 1977 in New York by Edmund Buczynski, an elder in the Gardnerian, WICA and New York Welsh Traditions, in order to create a Craft tradition for gay and bisexual men — one that would celebrate and explore the distinctive mysteries unique to men who love men.

His father was Edwin William John, a Welsh solicitor ; his mother, Augusta Smith from a long line of Sussex plumbers, died young when he was six, but not before inculcating a love of drawing in both Augustus and his older sister Gwen.

Others who acknowledge Norman's influence on their career or music include American drummer Hilly Michaels, who recorded with Norman and Randy Stonehill in 1970 ; Grammy Award-winning recording artist and rapper TobyMac, who described Norman as " socially relevant, spiritually significant and passionate about challenging his generation to new heights of love ", considered Norman his " greatest lyrical influence "; Mark Salomon, the lead singer of Christian metal band Stavesacre and thrash metal band The Crucified, who reveals that it was Norman's concert performance that connected him to Christian music ; and Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph.

( Bertil was second-in-line to the throne until his nephew produced an heir, and was therefore unable to marry the Welsh commoner, now his widow, Princess Lilian, with whom he had been in love for decades, until 1976.

Dustin Welsh, songwriter and preacher of love.

It is also possible that the dish was attributed to Wales because the Welsh were considered particularly fond of cheese, as evidenced by Andrew Boorde in his Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge ( 1542 ), when he wrote " I am a Welshman, I do love cause boby, good roasted cheese.

The most common Welsh folk song is the love song, with lyrics pertaining to the sorrow of parting or in praise of the girl.

In one moment, Denzil fights his brother for the love of Gwynedd in " Welsh Unarmed Hitting ".

Pembroke Welsh Corgis are very affectionate, love to be involved in the family, and tend to follow wherever their owners go.

It should be noted, however, that Dafydd Iwan was equally at home writing love ballads and variations on traditional Welsh folk tunes.

He became engaged in 1812 to Isabella Martin, whom, in 1823, he married ; but it may be at once stated here that meanwhile he gradually fell in love with Jane Welsh, and she with him.

It was while working in Wales that he developed a love and respect for the Welsh people that endured all his life.

Welsh Terriers get along well with children ; they love to play and follow a child as it plays, however, they will often tug at pant legs and can knock young ones off their feet.

She also indulged her love affair with the Welsh Marches by building a Canadian cedarwood chalet high up on the Welsh side of Llanymynech Hill near Oswestry with a stunning view up the Tanat Valley to the Berwyn Mountains, where eventually her ashes were scattered.

The soundtrack includes five rock singles-the title song and " I'm Free ", both by Kenny Loggins, " Holding Out for a Hero " by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, " Girl Gets Around " by Sammy Hagar, and " Never " by Australian rock band Moving Pictures ( the song played during Bacon's solo dance scene ); three R & B singles-" Let's Hear It for the Boy " by Deniece Williams, " Somebody's Eyes " by Karla Bonoff, and " Dancing In the Sheets " by Shalamar ; and the love theme " Almost Paradise " by Mike Reno from Loverboy and Ann Wilson of Heart.

I'm the son of a Welsh miner and I was born into love, married into love and spent my life in love.

Terry Hall pops in with his band to sing three songs: " Stuck in the Middle ", " No No No ", and " Thinking of You ", and Bob's Welsh love children go home on a coach.

Much attention was paid to the controversial casting choices of Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer, two actors perceived as " beautiful movie stars " with Hollywood glamour, cast to play " lonely little people struggling to find love ," originated by supposed " ordinary " actors Kenneth Welsh and Kathy Bates.

It came about after Welsh had been to watch his favourite football team, Cardiff and had noticed how the crowd's love of lager had been replaced by ecstasy after drinking alcohol was banned in the ground.

The seven princesses landed safely, fell in love with the sons of seven local Welsh families, married and settled down.

The name of Germany and the German language, in French, Allemagne, allemand, in Portuguese Alemanha, alemão, in Spanish Alemania, alemán, and in Welsh ( Yr ) Almaen, almaeneg are derived from the name of this early Germanic tribal alliance.

* 1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.

Siloa has been're-established ' as a Welsh language chapel.

* Mihangel Morgan-leading Welsh language writer, born in Trecynon, some of his literary works feature Aberdare

* British language ( Celtic ), also known as Brythonic, the ancient Celtic language once spoken in Britain, ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton

Irish bua ( Classical Irish buadh ), Buaidheach, Welsh buddugoliaeth ), and that the correct spelling of the name in the British language is Boudica, pronounced ( the closest English equivalent to the vowel in the first syllable is the ow in " bow-and-arrow ").

Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as an Insular Celtic language.

Several contemporary bands have Welsh language songs, such as Ceredwen, which fuses traditional instruments with trip-hop beats, the Super Furry Animals, Fernhill, and so on ( see the Music of Wales article for more Welsh and Welsh-language bands ).

Islanders ' accents retain elements passed down from English, Scottish, and Welsh settlers ( among others ) in a language variety known as Cayman Creole.

These are the Goidelic Irish ( Gaeilge ) and Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ) descended from Old Irish, and the Brythonic Welsh and Breton descended from the British language.

In the Welsh language who's origins, like Cornish is from the ancient British or Brythonic language line, ' Cist ' is also used for such ancient graves, but in modern use, can also mean a chest, a coffer, a box, or even the boot / trunk of a car.

Latin, the common language of the church, Old English, the language of the Angles and Saxons, Irish, spoken on the western coasts of Britain and in Ireland, Brythonic, ancestor of the Welsh language, spoken in large parts of western Britain, and Pictish, spoken in northern Britain.

Although writing exclusively in the English language, Thomas has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century.

Though FitzGibbon asserts that Thomas ' negativity towards Welsh nationalism was fostered by his father's hostility towards the Welsh language.

* A language descended from the pre-Roman inhabitants, though Welsh exists as a living minority language, with many borrowings from Latin, such as llaeth (" milk "), ffenestr (" window ").

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

The old language of the Welsh is as alive as ever.

They spoke the now extinct British language, which evolved into the Breton, Cornish, and Welsh languages.

Alfred Wallace was born in the Welsh village of Llanbadoc, near Usk, Monmouthshire.

As administrator of the Diocese of Hereford, he was involved in fighting against the Welsh, suffering two defeats at the hands of raiders before securing a settlement with Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, a Welsh ruler.

He was also a military leader, and in 1046 he led an unsuccessful expedition against the Welsh.

This was in retaliation for a raid led by the Welsh rulers Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, Rhys ap Rhydderch, and Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

Ealdred's expedition was betrayed by some Welsh soldiers who were serving with the English, and Ealdred was defeated.

Ealdred unsuccessfully tried to drive off the raiders, but was again routed by the Welsh.

Ealdred was granted the administration in order that the area might have someone with experience with the Welsh in charge.

This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.

Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the north west of Aberdare, was according to tradition the scene of a battle at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last Welsh prince of Glamorgan.

Steam coal was subsequently found in the Rhondda and further west, but many of the great companies of the Welsh coal industry's Gilded Age started operation in Aberdare and the lower Cynon Valley, including those of Samuel Thomas, David Davies and Sons, Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn.

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

Owing to its geographical location the town was frequently embroiled in the border warfare and power play of the 12th and 13th centuries in the Welsh Marches.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

Gerald of Wales relates how in 1182 the castle was seized back by the Welsh.

Abergavenny was celebrated for the production of Welsh flannel, and also for the manufacture, whilst the fashion prevailed, of goats ' hair periwigs.

This group of languages ( Welsh, Cornish, Cumbric ) cohabited alongside English into the modern period, but due to their remoteness from the Germanic languages, influence on English was notably limited.

It marked the beginning of summer and was linked to similar festivals held elsewhere in Europe, such as the Welsh Calan Mai and the Germanic Walpurgis Night.

Ó hÓgáin proposes that this term was also used in Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.

Boudica (; alternative spelling: Boudicca ), also known as Boadicea and known in Welsh as Buddug ( d. AD 60 or 61 ) was queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.

Even after the creation of the Church in Wales 1920, the 1662 book ( and its Welsh equivalent ) was used until 1966, when trials of new services began.