Thanks DM. The font is a bit odd but it worked
HTML Code:
Welsh Heritage
60 AD.
Listen! When Caradog celtic hero
Born of battle the Eagle's bane
From the mainland crossed the Menai
Pursued by Legions closely pressed
The Ordivices honour's mirror
Showed the hero secret groves
Swore friendship fast binded
Beneath the oak Hen Goaeden
The mother tree. of the people.
Came the Romans ravening through
On the rampage revenge hearted
Disdaining druid rites and runes
Splitting boughs bole and branches
Boiling messes with sacred fuel
For seven days the Ravens watched
From Clogwyn Coch on Craiglwyn's flank
Then descended to desolation
There they gathered the nine acorns
A last gift given by Hen Goaeden
O'er the sky-way wide they winged them
Seeding them in secret hallows
A boon to the land wherever they grew.
1300 AD
By Order of the king who everyone feared,
The Baumaris forest had to be cleared,
Young Dafydd-the-Axe was a woodcutter's son ,
He may not've liked it, but it had to be done.
For a Castle's no good with trees by its side,
There's too many places for foes to hide,
And a clear field of flight for arrows to fly,
Can't be achieved with a forest close by.
With a heart feeling heavy he entered the wood,
And by a great oak he mournfully stood,
This tree he knew well as his fore-fathers had ,
Under its branches he'd played as a lad.
Above in the sky the Ravens were wheeling,
And o'er Craiglwyn, thunder was pealing,
He took up his axe and got ready to swing,
But stopped and knelt down as storm clouds moved in.
A prayer and a curse welled up in his head,
The curse, that the king should be cut down instead,
That rulers hereafter would cherish the trees,
Prayed Dafydd-the-Axe down on his knees.
There was a flash and a crash as lightening struck down,
The old tree was rent from the root to the crown,
Young Dafydd lay still, 'till looking around,
He saw a small shoot breaking the ground..
He took it away to a place that he knew,
Where it was safe from the tree felling crew.
And there it grew cherished by Kings and by folk
And there ever after 'twas was called Dafydd's oak.
2013 AD
“As you pass,
Have a look through the arrow slit on your left.
The tree you see there was planted in 1838,
To commemorate the Coronation of Queen Victoria.
It was grown from an acorn
Taken from “Davy's Oak” a famous ancient tree,
That used to stand close by and was said to have dated back
To the time the Castle was built.
Now, proceed along the passage through the door at the end,
Then press number 8 on your Auto-Guide handset.”
Caradog = Caracticus
Ordivices = Iron age tribe of Anglesey
Clogwyn Coch = Red Cliff
Craiglwyn, = A Welsh Mountain
-
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
