Wales

Terribull you're right. Welsh was spoken in the north of Britain (along with other languages, probably) and the earliest Welsh poetry that's written down talks about drunken goings on at Catterick.

In Cumbria sheepdogs are still trained using Welsh-like numbers.

Breton and Welsh (along with Cornish) are very similar. A Welsh-speaking person could probably understand Breton, up to a point.

Gaelic, Manx and Irish Gaelic form the other branch of Celtic languages.

How on earth Welsh has managed to keep going I don't know-but it has, thankfully. .

Here's another one Annie, Betws y Coed, now I know the "y" is and, what do the other two words mean.

My impressions of Wales has always been one of a land of mysticism and an ancient people (not literally) with a fascinating language.

I like that Terri, so romantic , always knew we were true natives

Jalima - when we were in Brittany many years ago we got talking to a Breton couple and they said that the Welsh and Bretons were practically the same in many ways language etc., they are Celts like the Welsh. My romantic notion of the Welsh, the language and the people, is that they were the ancient Britons who got pushed west by the Romans into Wales and Cornwall. I like think the language has traces of the orginal Celtic, just vestiges of an ancient language that was spoken in our isles a couple of thousand years ago, before any Latin, Anglo Saxon or French infiltrated and changed it, please don't disillusion me anybody.

I loved cockle picking , wouldn't now though

My best friend - a Swansea girl - makes wonderful Bara Brith. I only tried lava bread once and once was enough! I enjoyed the cockles though!

A bit like boiled Australian fruit cake perhaps?

Except that boiled fruit cake has butter in it as well.

Thank you Sparkly that's it! Barm brack ( not bara brith) I got mixed up there.
I remember it had dried fruit and cold tea in it.

tempting but I ate too much over Easter

I have a good recipe for Bara Brith

Fried laverbread could be OK, it was just slimy!

I've always loved Barm Brack. I bought one last week.

Fried lava bread, scrummy

I like Welsh cakes, bara brith and cawl but I don't like laverbread!

'eglwys'
I never connected that before, is the French word eglise derived from Breton?

That's interesting sparkly,

Thank you Annie now I know a bit of Welsh, I was almost right I also remember the Welsh word for church is very similar to the French eglise. Interesting!

The Irish version of Bara Brith is called Barm Brack, I shall go and look up the translation

Certaintly Terri

Tros - over

Y. - the

Afon - river

Over the river

Anniebach - can you translate this please Trose y afon (I think). or something like that. We stayed here when my children were young and they like to chant the name and I wanted to know what it meant, I wondered if it meant bridge across a river, but not sure, however it stayed in my mind. Thanks.

Rosesarered. Bara means bread and brith is speckled, so it is Welsh

Pembrokeshire is beautiful, my girls and I once had a picnic on the beach in freshwater, in January ! Well it seemed a good idea at the time and we were the only ones on the beach, no we didn't paddle

Yes, Bara Brith is Welsh. There's probably an Irish version, though! So simple even I can do it, and that's saying something.

It translates as "speckled" or "spotty" bread. Which is exactly what is is.

Blimey dd 1901. You are really ancient!!

Is bara brith Welsh? My Grandma used to make it so I assumed it was Irish?

Stayed in Pembrokeshire about three years ago, what a lovely place! Long deserted beaches ( pale and sandy) friendly people, we were able to take our DGS for many country walks as well as the beach, and as he hates crowded places it was perfect for him( and us) would definitely go back again.House prices are very reasonable there, so it would be a good place to retire to for anyone considering a move to the country.