where he is attending the annual WOMEX (World Music Expo), and will make the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Juan Formell of Los Van Van.
El V writes:
Subject: Re: in room
both here and in ireland all the signs are bilingual in gaelic. across the street is the harlech house.
:
men of harlech, in the hollow,
do you hear like rushing billow,
wave on wave that surging follow
battle's distant sound?
loose the folds asunder,
flag we conquer under
the placid sky now bright on high
shall launch its bolts in thunder . . .
On 10/23/2013 12:40 PM, C replies:
Kill those Norman Plantagenet invaders! Stomp ‘em, bomp ‘em, mow ‘em down with your arrows!El V replies:
oh, i'll use that in my talk!C replies:
You should know: the "Men of Harlech" actually immortalizes the Welsh against Henry V, from whom the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII (House of Lancaster as well as the Welsh Tudors), was descended , post Henry IV decisively taking out the Plantagenet - House of York monarch Richard III. If it is confusing, it's because it's the confusion of the Wars of the Roses. The confusion is all the greater because, as you know, dear, this is not the history which is my specialty, and I don't know much about it.
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