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This is how we make learning Welsh enjoyable and probably easier than you might expect. An audio introduction to the Cadw Swn home-study Welsh course. 

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Cadw Swn home study Welsh course

An Introduction to Cadw Swn

Lucy's Unusual Sunday (Dydd Sul Anarferol Lleucu in Welsh) is the remarkable new album from Colin Jones, and includes 5 music tracks for your own use. 

Enter a new world, take a walk in the park, play while working, or simply quiet a mind to this expansive haven. 

Dydd Sul anarferol Lleucu

The chatter in our heads can cloud our experience of the world.

There may be times when a quieter mind can give you a richer experience of life, a more direct connection with your world. It doesn’t matter what religion you follow, if any – we are concerned with your experience of the physical, everyday world.

Through a clear and simple series of spoken recordings, available on a single CD or audio downloads, you can learn techniques to help quiet the mind when and if you should choose to.

Please listen to the recordings in a safe environment, where you can devote your full attention to them. Getting Quiet is not a replacement for any professional help or advice you may need.

Getting Quiet Track 7

The Mabinogion is a collection of tales, told over generations, recorded in two manuscripts; Llyfr Coch Hergest (the Red Book of Hergest) and Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch (The White Book of Rhydderch). Translated into English by Lady Charlotte Guest, they contain a large number of tales from the Welsh storytelling tradition. Strictly speaking, however, the term Mabinogi (Mabinogion was mistakenly taken as the plural of Mabinogi by Lady Charlotte Guest) refers to the Four Branches recorded here.

The Mabinogion begins with the tale of Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed. Pwyll changes places with a King of Annwfn, the Otherworld. He also meets Rhiannon for the first time, who appears on a charmed horse which cannot be caught by even the fastest rider.

The Second Branch concerns Branwen, her brother Bendigeidfran (a giant) and the terrible fate which follows her marriage to the King of Ireland.

In The Third Branch a castle appears where none has ever been seen before, charms are cast and deep revenge is played out.

The fourth branch concerns Blodeuwedd, the Woman of Flowers;

'So they took the the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd.'

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