[Bryn-gwlad] Celebrating Welshness

[Sandy Straubhaar]

Sophie wrote:

>a pile
>of half a dozen young men dashed onto the car in the middle of singing this
>very song.

And _that's_ why Ealdormere is so cool.  Even the non-SCA folks are crazy.  
In the best way.

Maybe they did an encore on the platform, of this song:

http://www.welsh-nutter.co.uk/songs/sospanfach.html
http://ingeb.org/songs/mysweetm.html

This is also a song for rugby matches.  (It's also the "silly saucepan song" 
that Calcifer sings in _Howl's Moving Castle_ -- the book, not the movie.)

Welshmen have been known to sing it (very solemnly) on train platforms in 
England, afterwards erupting in goofy grins when the English take their hats 
off in respect.  (It _does_ sound very National-Hymn-like.)

brynhildr

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