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Title: The Welsh and Their Literature
from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition

Author: George Borrow

Release Date: August 3, 2010 [eBook #33336]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1861 "The London Quarterly Review," (American
Edition) pages 20 to 33, by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

The Welsh and their Literature
by George Borrow

taken from the "The London Quarterly Review", 1861, pages 20-33.

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NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY LEONARD SCOTT & CO.,
79 FULTON STREET, CORNER OF GOLD STREET.

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1861.

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Art. II.--_The Sleeping Bard_; _or Visions of the World_, _Death_, _and
Hell_. By Elis Wyn. Translated from the Cambrian British by George
Borrow. London, 1860.

The Welsh style themselves Cymry or Cumry, a word which, in their
language, means a number of people associated together. {20} They were
the second mass of population which moved from Asia into Europe. They
followed and pushed forward the Gael or Gauls; were themselves impelled
onward by the Slowaks or Sclavonians, who were themselves hunted, goaded,
and pestered by a wild, waspish race of people, whom, for want of a
better name, we will call Tatars or Tartars. The Cymry have left their
name behind them in various regions far eastward of the one where they
now sojourn. The most easterly countries which still bear their name, or
modifications thereof, are Cambia, 'which is two dayes journey from the
head of the great river Bruapo,' and the Cryme or Crimea. In those
parts, and 'where Constantinople now is,' they tarried a considerable
time, and increased and multiplied marvellously: and it was whilst
tarrying in those regions, which they called collect