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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Ah," said the man, in Welsh, "I see you are a Cumro. Gwen and I have been wondering whether you were Welsh or English; but I see you are one of ourselves." "No," said I in the same language, "I am an Englishman, born in a part of England the farthest of any from Wales. In fact, I am a Carn Sais." "And how came you to speak Welsh?" said the man.
I told her to let me see him. He presently made his appearance. He was about forty-five years of age, of middle stature, and had a good-natured open countenance. His dress was poor, but clean. "Well," said I to him in Welsh, "are you the Cumro who can speak no Saxon?" "In truth, sir, I am." "Are you sure that you know no Saxon?" "Sir!
I knew by your tongue that you were not from our parts but I did not know that you were an Englishman. I took you for a Cumro of the south country." Returning the kind woman her book, and bidding her farewell I departed, and proceeded some miles through a truly magnificent country of wood, rock, and mountain.
What other country has been the scene of a struggle so deadly, so embittered, and protracted as that between the Cumro and the Saxon? A struggle which did not terminate at Caernarvon, when Edward Longshanks foisted his young son upon the Welsh chieftains as Prince of Wales; but was kept up till the battle of Bosworth Field, when a prince of Cumric blood won the crown of fair Britain, verifying the olden word which had cheered the hearts of the Ancient Britons for at least a thousand years, even in times of the darkest distress and gloom:
THE original home of the Cumro was Southern Hindustan, the extreme point of which, Cape Comorin, derived from him its name. It may be here asked what is the exact meaning of the word Cumro? The true meaning of the word is a youth. It is connected with a Sanscrit word, signifying a youth, and likewise a prince.
He is my landlord." "Is he a good landlord?" "Very good, sir, no one can wish for a better landlord." "Has he a wife?" "In truth, sir, he has; and a very good wife she is." "Has he children?" "Plenty, sir; and very fine children they are." "Is he Welsh?" "He is, sir! Cumro pur iawn."
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