The Kymry: Their Origin, History, and International Relations (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Kymry: Their Origin, History, and International RelationsThe subject of the antiquities and foreign relations of the Kymry seems to admit of a more interesting treatment than it has hitherto received. The few scholars who have handled it generally fail in acquaintance with foreign literature; and their ambition has too often led them to acquiesce in a dreary isolation and a barren nationality.The very term nationality now serves as a pretence for a fierce attack on institutions, and a corresponding defence not always conducted with temper nor with an absolute regard for truth. The temper now roused in Wales is the Nemesis pursuing the neglect of later times. Time was when a Roman Catholic self-exiled from Cambria could dedicate a Grammar to the noble William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, as to one who spoke pure Welsh. Of late, how rarely find we one of the landed gentry who even attempts a barbarous utterance of it! Some of the ornaments of the Church, Welshmen by blood, have studiously slighted it. Yet Griffith Roberts, Vicar-General of Milan, could say:"I beseech every native Kymro to pay due regard to the Welsh language; so that none may say of any of them, that it was a sin ever to breed them on the milk of a Kymraes's breast, for that they wished no better to the Welsh tongue."Most Welsh scholars have employed their time on the production of grammars and dictionaries.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.