Wales

Yes, Bara Brith is Welsh. There's probably an Irish version, though! So simple even I can do it, and that's saying something.

It translates as "speckled" or "spotty" bread. Which is exactly what is is.

Rosesarered. Bara means bread and brith is speckled, so it is Welsh

Pembrokeshire is beautiful, my girls and I once had a picnic on the beach in freshwater, in January ! Well it seemed a good idea at the time and we were the only ones on the beach, no we didn't paddle

Anniebach - can you translate this please Trose y afon (I think). or something like that. We stayed here when my children were young and they like to chant the name and I wanted to know what it meant, I wondered if it meant bridge across a river, but not sure, however it stayed in my mind. Thanks.

Certaintly Terri

Tros - over

Y. - the

Afon - river

Over the river

The Irish version of Bara Brith is called Barm Brack, I shall go and look up the translation

Thank you Annie now I know a bit of Welsh, I was almost right I also remember the Welsh word for church is very similar to the French eglise. Interesting!

That's interesting sparkly,

'eglwys'
I never connected that before, is the French word eglise derived from Breton?

I like Welsh cakes, bara brith and cawl but I don't like laverbread!

Fried lava bread, scrummy

I've always loved Barm Brack. I bought one last week.

Fried laverbread could be OK, it was just slimy!

I have a good recipe for Bara Brith

tempting but I ate too much over Easter

Thank you Sparkly that's it! Barm brack ( not bara brith) I got mixed up there.
I remember it had dried fruit and cold tea in it.

A bit like boiled Australian fruit cake perhaps?

Except that boiled fruit cake has butter in it as well.

My best friend - a Swansea girl - makes wonderful Bara Brith. I only tried lava bread once and once was enough! I enjoyed the cockles though!

I loved cockle picking , wouldn't now though

Jalima - when we were in Brittany many years ago we got talking to a Breton couple and they said that the Welsh and Bretons were practically the same in many ways language etc., they are Celts like the Welsh. My romantic notion of the Welsh, the language and the people, is that they were the ancient Britons who got pushed west by the Romans into Wales and Cornwall. I like think the language has traces of the orginal Celtic, just vestiges of an ancient language that was spoken in our isles a couple of thousand years ago, before any Latin, Anglo Saxon or French infiltrated and changed it, please don't disillusion me anybody.

I like that Terri, so romantic , always knew we were true natives

Here's another one Annie, Betws y Coed, now I know the "y" is and, what do the other two words mean.

My impressions of Wales has always been one of a land of mysticism and an ancient people (not literally) with a fascinating language.

Terribull you're right. Welsh was spoken in the north of Britain (along with other languages, probably) and the earliest Welsh poetry that's written down talks about drunken goings on at Catterick.

In Cumbria sheepdogs are still trained using Welsh-like numbers.

Breton and Welsh (along with Cornish) are very similar. A Welsh-speaking person could probably understand Breton, up to a point.

Gaelic, Manx and Irish Gaelic form the other branch of Celtic languages.

How on earth Welsh has managed to keep going I don't know-but it has, thankfully. .

I think Cumbric and Welsh was similar and more like Cornish and Breton than Gaelic, Manx and Irish Gaelic.

We haven't been to Brittany for ages but last time we went all the signposts were in French and Breton.

I remember an old lady I met (a friend's DM) who said she had to sit in the corner all day for speaking Welsh in school. I'm sure she said she had to wear a 'D' for Dunce but from what I have read it was 'WN' for 'Welsh Not'.

Terri,

Betws. - Chapel

Y. - The

Coed. Timber or tree

I would settle for chapel in the wood

Some Welsh words have two meanings as does coed but I doubt it means chapel in the tree so Chapel in the trees or in the wood