11/12/1282
The double ‘Ll’ in Cymraeg (Welsh) proves to be a stumbling block for English speakers, who cannot get their tongues around this alien vocabulary. It is difficult to explain phonetically what it sounds like, and thus, has come to symbolize for me, a character of ‘difference’ in the ‘make-up’ of Cymraeg speakers.
Words beginning with LL, when I trawled through the dictionary, also seemed to be overly concerned with loss … or certainly they seemed so to me, and I created a series of works based on a tragic moment in Welsh history, the murder (llofruddiaeth) of our last native prince (llyw olaf) Llewelyn in 1282. All the words begin with the llythrennau (letters)‘Ll’.
Translated the words in this piece read;
"England succeeded
hand of a cowardly murderer
full moon
our leader Llywelyn killed
we are bereft, full of weeping".
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