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The Essay: A Bard's Eye View of Wales: Saint Teilo - A Surplus of Arms

A Bard's Eye View of Wales

Saint Teilo - A Surplus of Arms

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Poet Twm Morys delves into the cultural links between Brittany and Wales

Twm Morys explores the cultural and historical links between Brittany and Wales - from their similar languages to their shared ownership of the legend of Saint Teilo

Twm Morys delves into the cultural links between Brittany and Wales, and looks into the story of St Teilo.

Drawing on his experience of living in Brittany for ten years, Twm says that speaking Breton was like speaking Welsh after taking some psychedelic drug, and living there was like a Wales where Methodist chapels never happened. St Teilo fled to Brittany with a band of monks in the 6th century to escape the plague, and during this time tamed a fierce dragon and chained it to a rock in the sea. Twm explains how a church in Brittany still manages to claim that they hold a hallowed relic of the Welsh Saint - his arm and hand, encased in silver - even though he returned to Wales to die.

Producer: Megan Jones for BBC Wales

The Essay: A Bard's Eye View of Wales

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Twm Morys with a personal perspective on five stories centring on Welsh history.

Poet and musician Twm Morys brings his personal perspective to five stories looking at aspects of the history of Wales over several centuries.

Poet and musician Twm Morys brings his personal perspective to five stories looking at aspects of the history of Wales over several centuries, following the fortunes of Welsh figures both eminent and ordinary.

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