Helen Fulton
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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So that was a major military victory.
So the poem praises Edward for his military prowess.
The poet says, The heart and breast of the lion.
He says, A good angel in the thick of battle.
And the poet also calls him the eagle of Windsor because Edward was born in the castle at Windsor.
So the poem really makes a lot of Edward's military prowess as a way of showing that the Welsh appreciated many Welsh fought in the Hundred Years' War on behalf of the King, and the idea of the poem was to celebrate Edward's successes in those battles.
Yes, I think there definitely was.
It's most visible in the 14th and 15th centuries, I suppose, sort of second half of the period of the March of Lordships, where a very distinctive culture began to emerge.
And it's really what you might call a border culture, as you might expect.
So it has things in common with other border areas even today.
So multilingualism and a certain amount of multiculturalism was evident.
Intermarriage was very common.
So people...
might have had a primary allegiance to being either English or Welsh, but actually their family, going back a few generations, was very enmeshed in both English and Welsh.
Most people were bilingual or multilingual.
There was a sense of community, a sense of territory of who owned what land.
It was really important to know where the jurisdictions were.
So there was a very particular kind of culture because of the people who lived in the borders that found expression through the kind of poetry, prose, the manuscripts, the churches, the monasteries, the way in which society was organised was quite distinctive to the march.
Well, the March of Lords themselves were probably a bit far removed from Welsh culture, but the sort of lower level of English gentry certainly appreciated Welsh culture.
They were the ones who mostly intermarried with Welsh people.
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