Llygad Gwalch
Compact Wales: Pembrokeshire - Its Present and Its past Explored
Author: J. Geraint Jenkins
ISBN: 9781845242466
Publication Date: 27 April 2016
Publisher: Llygad Gwalch Cyf, Llanrwst
Format: Paperback, 150x155 mm, 128 pages
Language: English
From the dawn of civilisation, this south-western peninsula of Wales has provided a landing stage for migrating people sailing up the western shores of Europe. Through the Neolithic, Bronze and Celtic ages, they brought with them new materials, new crafts, new ideas and a desire to market and exchange.
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Author Biography:
J. Geraint Jenkins The author (1929-2009) was a rural life and maritime academic who spent his career promoting this Welsh heritage in a lively and careful way at the National Folk Museum St Fagan's and the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum in Cardiff's docklands. A prolific author who researched his fields of interest with meticulous care, he was also a popular lecturer and very good company.
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From the dawn of civilisation, this south-western peninsula of Wales has provided a landing stage for migrating people sailing up the western shores of Europe. Through the Neolithic, Bronze and Celtic ages, they brought with them new materials, new crafts, new ideas and a desire to market and exchange. They have left a wealth of early evidence of their prehistoric culture in burial chambers (cromlech), standing stones (maen hir) and cairns (carnedd), and the Welsh language and Welsh place-names, of course, as it evolved from earlier Celtic forms. Later influences were Irish, Viking, Norman and Flemish and the names of rocky islands and sheltered coves and spectacular castles and castellated churches dot the landscape. The early saints of the Celtic Church created parishes and settlements which survive to the present day.
The numerous small ports around the shore have created a fine maritime tradition and its heritage is here for us to enjoy by walking the famous coastal path. The Preseli hills appear in the earliest Welsh myths and legends and its culture survives today in the work of poets as Waldo Williams and numerous community bards who tie the land and the people together with their classical verse.
Its natural beauty, tourist attractions and pride in the local produce of land and sea makes Pembrokeshire a pleasant place to visit – and it is well worth learning and understanding more about what lies under its present surface.
ISBN: 9781845242466
Publication Date: 27 April 2016
Publisher: Llygad Gwalch Cyf, Llanrwst
Format: Paperback, 150x155 mm, 128 pages
Language: English
From the dawn of civilisation, this south-western peninsula of Wales has provided a landing stage for migrating people sailing up the western shores of Europe. Through the Neolithic, Bronze and Celtic ages, they brought with them new materials, new crafts, new ideas and a desire to market and exchange.
The following has been provided by the Publisher:
Author Biography:
J. Geraint Jenkins The author (1929-2009) was a rural life and maritime academic who spent his career promoting this Welsh heritage in a lively and careful way at the National Folk Museum St Fagan's and the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum in Cardiff's docklands. A prolific author who researched his fields of interest with meticulous care, he was also a popular lecturer and very good company.
Further Information:
From the dawn of civilisation, this south-western peninsula of Wales has provided a landing stage for migrating people sailing up the western shores of Europe. Through the Neolithic, Bronze and Celtic ages, they brought with them new materials, new crafts, new ideas and a desire to market and exchange. They have left a wealth of early evidence of their prehistoric culture in burial chambers (cromlech), standing stones (maen hir) and cairns (carnedd), and the Welsh language and Welsh place-names, of course, as it evolved from earlier Celtic forms. Later influences were Irish, Viking, Norman and Flemish and the names of rocky islands and sheltered coves and spectacular castles and castellated churches dot the landscape. The early saints of the Celtic Church created parishes and settlements which survive to the present day.
The numerous small ports around the shore have created a fine maritime tradition and its heritage is here for us to enjoy by walking the famous coastal path. The Preseli hills appear in the earliest Welsh myths and legends and its culture survives today in the work of poets as Waldo Williams and numerous community bards who tie the land and the people together with their classical verse.
Its natural beauty, tourist attractions and pride in the local produce of land and sea makes Pembrokeshire a pleasant place to visit – and it is well worth learning and understanding more about what lies under its present surface.