Oct 14, 2020
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[image: A gold banner with black top and bottom line borders, and a blue bat with spread wings in the center. / end image.]
Agdhjdkd the proposed Brycheiniog flag has a bat on it, yes please choose this one.
Welsh Cobs by Dave
Dwynwen?
Naming a boat, well naming anything, is not something to take lightly. We spend ages thinking up the names of our babes to be, only to find out we have the sex wrong, or that when they make their appearance in the world that the name is totally wrong. So it is with some trepidation that I already have our boat named. A name that goes back into history, and is associated with love, devotion, isolation, and oddly enough, quite possibly the worlds smallest example of a tectonic plate! Dwynwen.
Dwynwen is to be our boats name. Dwynwen, after the Welsh Saint, considered by many to be their equivalent of St Valentine. I say a Welsh Saint, she is venerated all around the Western Seaboard of the British Isles. Whilst she lived on Ynys Môn, daughter of Brychan Brycheiniog, King of Brycheiniog. Having fallen hopelessly in love with the young Maelon. Now there are many stories as to what happened next, but in essence, she was never to marry the man. Distraught, Dwynwen prays to be allowed to forget her lover. An angel appears, turns Maelon to ice with a potion. Dwynwen seeing this, then prays again, asking for three wishes. One, to allow Maelon to reanimate, the second to request God looks after all true lovers, and finally, that she remained unmarried for the rest of her mortal life. These wishes granted, she moves to Ynys Llanddwyn to live out her life as a hermit.
I have visited Llanddwyn Island a couple of times now. It is a beautiful tidal island. Not very big, but wonderfully isolated. It appeals to me on so many levels, but for now, they will be limited to the spiritual, and the geological. Llanddwyn is a rare beasty; an almost perfect example of a micro tectonic plate. I would try to explain it, but this video does a much better job! So there we are, now you know why :-)