#calon lan

[watches-and-windchimes]

C is for Calon Lân

This is one of the first songs I ever learned in Welsh

The colour scheme for this was originally going to include greens but I'm so glad I switched to blue

[ID: An illuminated letter C in the style of a Celtic manuscript. The letter is coloured in red, dark purple, pale purple, black and grey, with silver illumination. Panels within the letter contain drawings of veins, arteries and a human heart. The empty space of the letter is filled with heart themed Celtic motifs. The letter forms the beginning of a quote, the rest of which is in a simple red font. It reads "Calon lân yn llawn daioni, tecach yw na'r lili dlos, dim ond calon lân all ganu, canu'r dydd a chanu'r nos". At the top of the page is a border of Celtic knotwork. /End ID]

[luuuuuke-evans]

Luke Evans singing Calon Lân, a Welsh hymn and rugby anthem. - (x)

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[cerbear]

Couldn't sleep. Watched this. Felt better. <3 I'm pretty sure this song actually has healing powers.

Haven't lived in my home country, the Land of Song, for the best part of 8 years but I'll always go back.

(lyrics and translation)

[jibeys-retreat]

"Calon Lân" (Welsh for 'A Pure Heart') is a Welsh hymn, the words of which were written in the 1890s. Sung by a traditional Welsh Male Voice Choir, from one of the Welsh Valleys, which were at one time taken over by coal mining.

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calon

Welsh

calon heart

http://www.madog.org/dysgwyr/caneuon/can03.html

Calon Lan - A Pure Heart

Nid wy'n gofyn bywyd moethus,

Aur y byd na'i berlau mân:

Gofyn wyf am galon hapus,

Calon onest, calon lân.

Cytgan:

Calon lân yn llawn daioni,

Tecach yw na'r lili dlos:

Dim ond calon lân all ganu-

Canu'r dydd a chanu'r nos.

Pe dymunwn olud bydol,

Hedyn buan ganddo sydd;

Golud calon lân, rinweddol,

Yn dwyn bythol elw fydd.

Hwyr a bore fy nymuniad

Gwyd i'r nef ar edyn cân

Ar i Dduw, er mwyn fy Ngheidwad,

Roddi i mi galon lân.

A Pure Heart

It is difficult to translate the Welsh word "glan" into English. At it's simplest, it means "clean". However, it is used in hymns and prayers with a sense of "holy" (c.f., "Yr Ysbryd Glan" - "The Holy Spirit") or "pure". Either sense fits this lovely hymn.

I don't ask for a luxurious life,

the world's gold or its fine pearls:

I ask for a happy heart,

an honest heart, a pure heart.

Chorus:

A pure heart is full of goodness,

More lovely than the pretty lily:

Only a pure heart can sing -

Sing day and night.

If I wished worldly wealth,

He has a swift seed;

The riches of a virtuous, pure heart,

Will be a perpetual profit.

Late and early, my wish

Rise to Heaven on the wing of song,

To God, for the sake of my Saviour,

Give me a pure heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-5a-SdS4JI

[neverhollowed]

Calon Lan - Elin Gregory

As war rages in France, battles are also being fought on the Home Front. Bethan Harrhy, farmer's wife, does her best to keep her family happy as prices rise and the weather worsens. Nye, her husband, is angry and worried. Alwyn, her brother, is injured and shaken by his experiences in the trenches. Her baby is teething and there's another on the way. Surely having her brother's best friend to stay, another face, another voice, another pair of hands, can only be a good thing? But when Joe arrives, Bethan is forced to confront ideas she had never even guessed at and makes a terrible mistake. With conflict at home and abroad, can there be a happy ending for any of them?

Written in the POV of Bethan, a farmer’s wife, Calon Lan is scene after scene of domestic, everyday things that would have been dull and tedious had it not been as well written as it is. Set in WWI-era Wales, when men were sent to abroad to die, Bethan’s brother, Alwyn, has come home to the farm, injured and traumatized. Alwyn’s friend, Joe, came to help out with the chores and soon Bethan noticed her brother was almost like his old self again. She inadvertently witness a tender moment between the two friends and so she asked herself, “could a man love another man?”. There’s an air of innocence and child-like bewilderment in Bethan that could have easily been ignorance and malice in a lesser person. The advice and support she received from an unexpected quarter came gently and subtly. The whole story felt so soft, warm and pure even during the dramatic scenes when tempers ran high. That dinner in the end, outside in the golden evening sunshine of summer, that was how the whole thing felt like. 

Rating: 3.5 Stars - that place between like and love     

Soundtrack: Farewell and Goodnight Artist: Smashing Pumpkins Album: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

(source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36333392-calon-lan)