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Welsh Literature
Of Bards, Collies, and
Tywysogion
July 8, 2013
Ray Taras
From the poets of princes known as
Beirdd y Tywysogion
to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” the history, mythology, and landscape of Wales—and her border collies—have inspired generati…