A Dictionary of Welsh and English Idiomatic Phrases
This brand new dictionary, containing some 12,000 Welsh and English idiomatic phrases, is sure to be of interest to both Welsh speakers and learners. The phrases included range from those which are true idioms in both languages and cannot be translated literally - such as chwerthin yn ei dwrn: to laugh up her sleeve - to those where only the use of a preposition is different or peculiar - such as amneidio ar rywun: to beckon to somone. Many of the other phrases contain a peculiarity of vocabulary, word order or tense, which means that they cannot be translated word for word.
An old skeleton uncovered beneath the slave quarters of Monticello and a new murder in Crozet, Virginia, bring together tiger-striped Mrs. Murphy and Welsh Corgi Tee Tucker to solve the killing.
Early medieval kingship was exercised in a domestic setting with no divide between the officers of state and the royal household. The Laws of Court in the medieval Welsh lawbooks provide some of the most interesting evidence for the structure and operation of a royal court in early medieval Europe. These are richly detailed but also problematic texts, and their correct interpretation is the central concern of The Welsh King and his Court.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 4 November 2010
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A Prince of Cornwall
With regard to the topography of the Wessex frontier involved, although it practically explains itself in the course of the story, it may be as well to remind a reader that West Wales was the last British kingdom south of the Severn Sea, the name being, of course, given by Wessex man to distinguish it from the Welsh principalities in what we now call Wales, to their north. "Prince of Cornwall" takes place around 690-710 AD, and deals much with the relations between Welsh and Saxons, feat. some resident Danes in the country.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 18 October 2010
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Fall of Giants
Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
