"- see понедельник Thing (Assembly), of which god Tyr/Ziu was the patron. Mid-week ""or"" Middle The day between two fasts ""(An Dé idir dhá aoin, contracted to An Déardaoin)"" (Christianity) The Fast or Fasting Day (Christianity) Good Friday or Preparation (Christianity) ""Shabbat"" (Jewish Sabbath) Names of the days of the week The names of the days of the week in many languages are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astrology, which were in turn named after contemporary deities, a system introduced by the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity. In some other languages, the days are named"
"Dwynwen) is the Welsh day of love much like St. Valentine's Day. Celebrated on 26 December, in Wales Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day is known as Gŵyl San Steffan. 1 January: The Welsh New Year's Eve and Day celebration involving the tradition of giving gifts or money Calennig to celebrate the new year. 2 February: Literally translates as ""Mary's Festival of the Candles"", and it is equivalent to Candlemas and Imbolc. In Paganism, the Welsh holiday name is just ""Gŵyl y Canhwyllau"", meaning ""The Festival of Candles"". 20–21 March: Spring Equinox, a time of festival and drinking, the middle"
"of Spring. 1 May: May Day, a time of festival and drinking, the first day of summer and the Welsh equivalent of Beltane. 20–21 June: Alban Hefin, a time of festival and drinking, (Summer Solstice) 24 June: Gwyl Ifan (St John's Day), a time of festival and drinking, otherwise known as Midsummer's day. Around 1 August: The first day of Autumn, a time of festival and drinking, the Welsh equivalent of Lughnasadh, or Lammas. 22–23 September: Autumn Equinox, a time of festival and drinking, the middle of Autumn. 31 October and 1 November: Winter's eve and the first day of"
"Gwynno Gwynno, or Gwynnog ab Gildas, is the name of a 6th-century Welsh saint Archives at the Vatican record that his festival is 26 October; that he is regarded as a confessor; and that there is said to be a sacred well, Ffynnon Wyno, associated with Llanwonno, in Glamorganshire. Gwynno appears to have been the son of Cau, called Euryn y Coed aur. During the Yellow Plague of 547, the monks of the dead Illtyd went for safety from West Wales to Brittany. Instead of returning to Pembrokeshire, they travelled east to Glamorgan to settle at Llantwit Major (Llanilltud Fawr"
"Calan Gaeaf Calan Gaeaf is the name of the first day of winter in Wales, observed on 1 November. The night before is ""Nos Galan Gaeaf"" or ""Noson Galan Gaeaf"", an ""Ysbrydnos"" when spirits are abroad. People avoid churchyards, stiles, and crossroads, since spirits are thought to gather there. Children and women would dance around a village fire and, during this process, everyone would write their names on rocks and place them in and around said fire. When the fire started to die out they would all run home- whereas if they stayed, 'Yr Hwch Ddu Gwta' (a bad omen"
"Islands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, and Switzerland. The date is also a public holiday in those countries that celebrate Boxing Day on the day in addition to or instead of Saint Stephen's Day, such as Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. In the Republic of Ireland, the day is one of nine official public holidays. In Irish, it is called ' or ', meaning the Wren Day. When used in this context, ""wren"""
"a corruption of Afan. Saint Afan Saint Afan of Builth (; ) was an early 6th-century Welsh bishop, martyr, and saint. His feast day is generally placed on 17 November, although the Demetian Calendar formerly used in southern Wales placed it on the 16th; it is no longer observed by either the Anglican or Catholic church in Wales. Afan as a man's name in Wales is probably a loan from the Latin ""Amandus"". In Welsh, he is sometimes known as ' (""Bishop Afan"") from his title and as ' or """" from his diocese around Builth in Brycheiniog. Saint Afan"
"theme. A special programme from the fictitious Fishguard Film Festival. This episode won a Bafta Cymru award for Best Light Entertainment. A St. David's Day special in which Barry Welsh searches for the truth behind the patron saint of Wales. Barry is joined by Gwyn, Mr. FFFF, Pete Baikie and Beca Evans (Pub Quiz) for a ""live"" Hogmany-style extravaganza as Wales counts down to midnight and the ""Welshest day of the year"", St. David's Day. The third St. David's Day special from the series in which Hugh Pugh provides his own personal account of ten thousand years of Welsh history."
"medium of Welsh . The Cymanfa Ganu is one of the unique features of Welsh culture and its preservation is being supported by a number of Welsh cultural associations, such as the New Zealand National Gymanfa Ganu Association and the Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association (North America). Once a year, a four-day North American Festival of Wales (a Gymanfa Ganu, commonly just referred to as a ""National"") is held in North America over the Labor Day weekend. The four-day festival opens on Thursday night with a ""Noson Lawen"", which some call a Welsh Amateur Night. The weekend continues with an"
"public holiday in Wales. Other days which have been proposed for national public commemorations are 16 September (the day on which Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion began) and 11 December (the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd). The traditional seasonal festivals in Wales are: Many works of Celtic art have been found in Wales. In the Early Medieval period, the Celtic Christianity of Wales participated in the Insular art of the British Isles and a number of illuminated manuscripts survive, of which the 8th century Hereford Gospels and Lichfield Gospels are the most notable. The 11th century Ricemarch Psalter (now in Dublin) is"
"Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"", reflecting the pre-Christian religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, a variation of the Norse god Odin. In other languages, such as the French ""mercredi"" or Italian ""mercoledì"", the day's name is a calque of ""dies Mercurii"" ""day"
"often cast a small offering of food – usually the crust of a pasty – to appease their malevolence. Many landscape features, from the barren granite rock features on Bodmin Moor, to the dramatic cliff seascape, to the mystical form of St Michael's Mount are explained as the work of Giants and English tales such as the early eighteenth century Jack the Giant Killer may recall much older British folk traditions recorded elsewhere in medieval Welsh language manuscripts and closely related to the folk traditions of Dartmoor in neighbouring Devon. Old Michaelmas Day falls on 11 October (10 October according"
"Saint Afan Saint Afan of Builth (; ) was an early 6th-century Welsh bishop, martyr, and saint. His feast day is generally placed on 17 November, although the Demetian Calendar formerly used in southern Wales placed it on the 16th; it is no longer observed by either the Anglican or Catholic church in Wales. Afan as a man's name in Wales is probably a loan from the Latin ""Amandus"". In Welsh, he is sometimes known as ' (""Bishop Afan"") from his title and as ' or """" from his diocese around Builth in Brycheiniog. Saint Afan was the son of"
"Persian (چهارشنبه—Cheharshnbh). Portuguese uses the word ""quarta-feira"", meaning ""fourth day"", while in Greek the word is ""Tetarti"" (Τετάρτη) meaning simply ""fourth"". Similarly, Arabic means ""fourth"", Hebrew means ""fourth"", and Persian means ""fourth day"". Yet the name for the day in Estonian ""kolmapäev"", Lithuanian ""trečiadienis"", and Latvian ""trešdiena"" means ""third day"" while in Mandarin Chinese (""xīngqīsān""), means ""day three"", as Sunday is unnumbered. The Creation narrative in the Hebrew Bible places the creation of the Sun and Moon on ""the fourth day"" of the divine workweek. Quakers traditionally referred to Wednesday as ""Fourth Day"" to avoid the pagan associations with the"
"Wenn (near Bodmin) and chapels at St Kew and Cheristowe. She was murdered by pagans on 18 October of an unknown year at Talgarth. She should not be confused with her niece Saint Wenna (""Gwen ferch Cynyr""), a 6th-century queen. Saint Wenna Saint Wenna ( 463 18 October ???) is a Cornish saint and the dedicatee of several churches, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, and Anglican Communion. Her feast day is 18 October. Wenna founded the church of Talgarth and St Wenn and chapels at St Kew and Cheristowe (in Stoke-by-Hartland, Devon). Wenna is thought to"
"(Wednesday), standard Welsh ""Mercher"", from older Welsh ""Merchyr""). Tredegyr is ""farmstead of Tegyr"" (tre, a form of tref = farmstead) + soft mutation (t > d) + Tegyr. A Brythonic form *Tecorix (fair king) might be supposed, as such a form would have resulted in Welsh ""Tegyr"" following normal processes in the development of Welsh from Brythonic. There is a similar name in Denbighshire – Botegyr, meaning ""Tegyr’s dwelling"", < Bod Degyr < (bod = dwelling) + (soft mutation t > d) + (Tegyr). The local form of the name was in fact Tredecar (with “c” [k] instead of “g”)."
"with Gruff Rhys, Gwenno signed a record deal with Heavenly Recordings. Peski continued to work with Gwenno acting as her management. In March 2016, after a period of inactivity, it was announced that the label is dissolving. ""Cam o'r Tywyllwch"" (Welsh for ""A Step from the Darkness"") is a specialist weekly radio programme curated by Peski exploring experimental and avant-garde music from Wales and further afield. The first programme was broadcast on 14 February 2013 and became the first Welsh-language show on Radio Cardiff. An eight part series of ""Cam O'r Tywyllwch"" was produced for London's art radio station Resonance"
"evening at 9.30pm Mostyn Thomas, sang Dafydd y Garreg Wen, which was the first Welsh language song to be broadcast. A commemorative plaque records the event. 5WA Cardiff was a radio service which began broadcasting on 13 February 1923 and ended on 28 May 1923. BBC Wales is based in Broadcasting House, Llandaff, northern Cardiff and provides BBC One Wales and BBC Two Wales television channels. BBC Wales produces the most-watched Welsh news programme ""BBC Wales Today"", current affairs programme ""Week In Week Out"", sports coverage in ""Scrum V"" and ""Sport Wales"", science-fiction programmes including ""Doctor Who"" and ""Torchwood"", and"
"Calennig Calennig is a Welsh word meaning """"New Year celebration/gift"""", although it literally translates to ""the first day of the month"", deriving from the Latin word kalends. The English word ""Calendar"" also has its root in this word. The capital of Wales, Cardiff, holds Calennig celebrations at the Cardiff Civic Centre to welcome in the New Year, including free live music, fairground rides, a midnight fireworks display and an opportunity to ice-skate into the new year at Cardiff's Winter Wonderland. The tradition of giving gifts and money on New Year's Day is an ancient custom that survives even in modern-day"
"but this has changed to Fridays globally in 2015. In Australia, events occurring on Tuesdays include: Tuesday Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. According to some commonly used calendars, however, especially in the United States, it is the third day of the week. The English name is derived from Old English ""Tiwesdæg"" and Middle English ""Tewesday,"" meaning ""Tīw's Day"", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, and law and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with"
"the Laws of Hywel Dda, the three main holidays (""gwyliau"") of the medieval Welsh kingdoms were Christmas (""Nadolig""), Easter (""Pasg""), and Whitsuntide (""Sulgwyn""). Other important holidays were the feasts of St Patrick (""Gwyl Badric"") on 17 March; St. Quiricus (""Gwyl Giric"") on 16 June; the Beheading of John the Baptist (called in Welsh ""Gwyl Ieuan y Moch"" St. John of the Swine as it was the day the pigs were turned out into the woods to forage through the winter) on 29 August; St Michael (""Gwyl Fihangel"") on 29 September; and the Calends of Winter (""Calan Gaeaf"") on 1 November,"
"Gŵyl Mabsant A Gŵyl Mabsant (Welsh for ""Feast of the Patron""), also known as the Patronal Festival or Wake of a parish, is a traditional Welsh festival held annually in commemoration of the patron saint of a parish. Prior to 1752, the corresponding fair was reckoned by the Saint's Day according to tradition or to the official Catholic or Anglican Calendar of Saints; following the shift to New Style dating, however, the fair was reckoned eleven days later. (For example, St. Teilo's Fair in Llandeilo was originally held on February 9 but came to be held on the 20th.) By"
"when local parishes would celebrate the patron saint of their local church. This celebration died out in the 19th century, to be replaced by Saint David's Day, which is celebrated on 1 March throughout Wales, and by Welsh expats around the world. Commemorating the patron saint of friendship and love, Dydd Santes Dwynwen's popularity has been increasing recently. It is celebrated on 25 January in a similar way to St Valentine's Day: by exchanging cards and by holding parties and concerts. Calan Gaeaf, associated with the supernatural and the dead, is observed on 1 November (All Saints Day). It has"
"of Mercury"". It has the most letters out of all the Gregorian calendar days. Wednesday is in the middle of the common Western five-day workweek that starts on Monday and finishes on Friday. The name Wednesday continues Middle English ""Wednesdei"". Old English still had ""wōdnesdæg"", which would be continued as ""*Wodnesday"" (but Old Frisian has an attested ""wednesdei""). By the early 13th century, the ""i""-mutated form was introduced unetymologically. The name is a calque of the Latin ""dies Mercurii"" ""day of Mercury"", reflecting the fact that the Germanic god Woden (Wodanaz or Odin) during the Roman era was interpreted as"
"is that the Welsh language belongs to all Welsh citizens and that everyone can contribute to its future vitality. Shwmae Sumae Day Shwmae Sumae Day (Welsh: ""Diwrnod Shwmae Sumae"") is a day marked each year in Wales to celebrate and promote the Welsh language. ""Shwmae"" and ""Sumae"" are informal greetings used in the south and the north respectively to start a conversation. The day is celebrated on 15 October each year in order to promote community use of the language and encourage non-Welsh speakers to consider learning the language. The day was held for the first time in 2013, and"
"Saint Wenna Saint Wenna ( 463 18 October ???) is a Cornish saint and the dedicatee of several churches, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholic Church, and Anglican Communion. Her feast day is 18 October. Wenna founded the church of Talgarth and St Wenn and chapels at St Kew and Cheristowe (in Stoke-by-Hartland, Devon). Wenna is thought to have been a daughter of Brychan a legendary king of Brycheiniog in South Wales. Her first church was at Talgarth, near her home. She, Nectan (her brother), and possibly other siblings evangelized Cornwall where she founded the church at St"
"National Eisteddfod and in November 2015 won the 2014–2015 Welsh Music Prize. Gwenno also currently co-produces and co-hosts a Welsh radio show on Cardiff Radio titled ""Cam O'r Tywyllwch"" (""A Step Away from the Darkness"") with her Peski Records colleagues. The team was also behind the CAM '15 music festival in Cardiff, which took place in April 2015 and featured the first live performance in over 20 years by Welsh music post-punk pioneers Datblygu. In October 2018 the Cornish Language Board claimed that Saunders' album ""Le Kov"" had contributed to a 15% increase in the number of people taking Cornish"
"Big Chill, Field Day and the National Eisteddfod of Wales. He has contributed to the ""Western Mail"", ""Kruger Magazine"", ""The Independent"", ""The Mirror"" and ""NME"", and guest-edited the ""Guardian"" music blog. He is the voice of the Discovery Shed television channel. In 2007 he established a new music festival for Cardiff. The first Sŵn festival took place on 9–11 November across 13 venues in the city and has occurred yearly since. Sŵn (pronounced ""soon"") is the Welsh word for ""sound"", and the festival brings new bands, DJs and performers from Wales, the UK and elsewhere together with art and films"
"Gwynedd County Council was promoting it. St Dwynwen is not officially commemorated in the liturgies of the Roman Catholic or Anglican Churches; she does not appear in the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology, nor the Roman Catholic calendar for Wales, nor the 1995 revision of the Church in Wales calendar. She is also the patron saint of sick animals. Dwynwen Saint Dwynwen (; 5th century), sometimes known as Dwyn or Donwen, is the Welsh patron saint of lovers. She is celebrated throughout Wales on 25 January. Dwynwen is believed to have been a daughter of King Brychan Brycheiniog, who"
"Samuel Pepys noted how Welsh celebrations in London for Saint David's Day would spark wider counter-celebrations amongst their English neighbours: life-sized effigies of Welshmen were symbolically lynched, and by the 18th century the custom had arisen of confectioners producing ""taffies""—gingerbread figures baked in the shape of a Welshman riding a goat—on Saint David's Day. Unlike Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland, Saint David's Day is not a national holiday, though there is strong support for it becoming a bank holiday in Wales. In the past, schools have taken a half-day holiday, which continues in some parts of Wales. Saint David's Day"
"All Saints' Day (""yr Holl Saint""). A special drink called the ""liquor of the Apostles"" (""gwirawd yr ebestyl"") was brewed for and distributed on these saints' days. The patron saint of Wales is St David, . St. David's Day ("""") is celebrated on 1 March, which some people argue should be a designated national holiday. On a more localised level, each parish celebrated a Gŵyl Mabsant in commemoration of its native saint. This annual celebration developed from a dedication through prayer to a programme of recreational activities. Celebrated on 25 January every year, Dydd Santes Dwynwen (the day of Saint"
"the p-Celtic Welsh language as '. An exception is Portuguese, also a Romance language, which uses the word ', meaning ""sixth day of liturgical celebration"", derived from the Latin ' used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods. In Sardinian, the word ' also figures as an exception among all the other Romance languages, since it is derived from Latin '. This name had been given by the Jewish community exiled to the island in order to designate the food specifically prepared for Shabbat eve. In Arabic, Friday is ', from a root"
"Y Dydd Olaf (album) Y Dydd Olaf is the first solo album by Welsh singer-songwriter Gwenno. It was her third solo release after two previous EPs. The album was initially released on a small scale by the independent Peski Records label in October 2014 and sold out completely. It was re-released worldwide in 2015 by Heavenly Recordings. The album was an attempt by Gwenno to combine her political views with sounds she loves and was inspired in part by a dystopian science fiction book of the same name by Owain Owain which was released in 1976. Since the album was"