Twm Sion Cati - wanted dead or alive
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| 16:40 UK time, Wednesday, 3 February 2010
I'm sure many of you are sat at home reading this and thinking who on earth was Twm Sion Cati?
I have to confess I knew little of him until I began work on the new Weatherman Walking website.
In episode 2, Derek walked part of the Twm Trail - a 22 mile trail opened in 2009 near Tregaron.
Local Twm enthusiast and walking guide - Dafydd Morgan walks Derek through the bandit country and chats about Twm and the myths & legends that surround him. Keep an eye out for Dafydd's alter ego...
Twm Sion Cati has been hailed by many as the 'Welsh Robin Hood' - a bandit, bard and prince among thieves. His scrapes were legendary, constantly outwitting his rivals and the law and evading capture at every turn.
Unlike Robin Hood though, Twm Sion Cati was a real person and there is plenty of written evidence by the man himself to prove it.
Twm even had his own hide-out in a local cave on Dinas Hill, near Ystrad-ffin and Rhandir-mwyn, on the RSPB reserve.
For a poor man he got around a fair bit too - at one point fleeing as far as Geneva to avoid religious persecution and the law in 1557.
However he received a royal pardon from Elizabeth I in 1559, enabling him to return to Wales and live out a fairly respectful life as a landlord, Justice of the Peace, historian and poet.
The later years of his life were devoted to the study of Welsh history and literature and his work can still be seen in the British Library and the National Library of Wales.
Find out more about the walk in Tregaron.
Read Derek's blog at the time he did this walk.
Twm Sion Cati on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Mid Wales - two excellent articles
Gull
I have to confess I knew little of him until I began work on the new Weatherman Walking website.
In episode 2, Derek walked part of the Twm Trail - a 22 mile trail opened in 2009 near Tregaron.
Local Twm enthusiast and walking guide - Dafydd Morgan walks Derek through the bandit country and chats about Twm and the myths & legends that surround him. Keep an eye out for Dafydd's alter ego...
Twm Sion Cati has been hailed by many as the 'Welsh Robin Hood' - a bandit, bard and prince among thieves. His scrapes were legendary, constantly outwitting his rivals and the law and evading capture at every turn.
Unlike Robin Hood though, Twm Sion Cati was a real person and there is plenty of written evidence by the man himself to prove it.
Twm even had his own hide-out in a local cave on Dinas Hill, near Ystrad-ffin and Rhandir-mwyn, on the RSPB reserve.
For a poor man he got around a fair bit too - at one point fleeing as far as Geneva to avoid religious persecution and the law in 1557.
However he received a royal pardon from Elizabeth I in 1559, enabling him to return to Wales and live out a fairly respectful life as a landlord, Justice of the Peace, historian and poet.
The later years of his life were devoted to the study of Welsh history and literature and his work can still be seen in the British Library and the National Library of Wales.
Find out more about the walk in Tregaron.
Read Derek's blog at the time he did this walk.
Twm Sion Cati on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Mid Wales - two excellent articles
Gull
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