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British Roots and Welsh Traditions, in their early literature, the people of Wales described themselves as living on Ynys Prydain, the Isle of Britain. It was not simply the Cambrian Peninsula containing the principality of Wales but a greater part of Britain, the early Welsh perceived that they were the cultural and linguistic descendants of the ancient Britons. The lengthy early poem 'Y Gododdin', attributed to Aneirin of the 6th century, begins near what is today Edinburgh and continues into northern Yorkshire. Large areas of the Lowlands of Scotland, especially in the southwest, remained Welsh-speaking for many centuries into the Middle-Ages. The latter, almost wistful name for these lost provinces is 'the Old North or 'Yr Hen Ogledd'. The word 'Wales is from the Saxon wealas, which means 'foreigner' or 'not Saxon'. Ymannerch Yr HOB.
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