. Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, with a brief sketch of Welsh history;. f plague andbattle, it was a notable spot. From Colwyn apTangno, the fountainhead of half the pedigrees inNorth-west Wales, till forty years after Glyndwrstime, when, in the Wars of the Roses, David apSinion made that celebrated defence against LordHerbert which inspired the writing of the stirringand immortal march, Harlech was a focus of strife,the delight of the bard, the glory of the all Welsh castles, save the fragment of DinasBran,—and that is indeed saying much,—it is themost
. Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence, with a brief sketch of Welsh history;. f plague andbattle, it was a notable spot. From Colwyn apTangno, the fountainhead of half the pedigrees inNorth-west Wales, till forty years after Glyndwrstime, when, in the Wars of the Roses, David apSinion made that celebrated defence against LordHerbert which inspired the writing of the stirringand immortal march, Harlech was a focus of strife,the delight of the bard, the glory of the all Welsh castles, save the fragment of DinasBran,—and that is indeed saying much,—it is themost proudly placed ; and the great medieval fortress,still in its exterior so perfect, is well worthy of its a pile of mountains to the north Snowdonlifts its shapely peak; far westward into the shiningsea stretches the long arm of West Carnarvon,throwing up here and there its shadowy outstandingpeaks till it fades into the dim horizon behind whichIreland lies. As the eye travels southward, thelofty headlands of Merioneth give way to thefainter capes of Cardigan, and upon the verge of. 1404] Owen and the French 233 sight in clear weather the wild coast of Pembroke,its rugged outline softened by distance, lies low be-tween sea and sky. Those to whom such things appeal will see muchthat is appropriate in the gathering of Glyndwr, hisbards, his warriors, his priests, his counsellors, atHarlech during this winter which perhaps markedthe high-tide of his renown. His wife, the best ofwives, with the fair Katherine, wife of Mortimer,was here, and a crowd of dames, we may be well as-sured, whose manors were not at that time, withtheir husbands in the field, the safest of abodes forlonely females. Owens three married daughterswere not here, for the Scudamores, Monningtons,and Crofts, whose names they bore, being Hereford-shire men, were all upon the other side. EdmundMortimer, of course, was present, and it is strangehow a soldier of such repute and of so vigorousa stock shoul
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