LANDMARKS IN WELSH HISTORY
930AD:
Laws of Wales certified by Hywel Dda - "Right and Justice based on the laws of Hywel Dda blossomed into a perfection of beauty such as is to be found among no other people in the Middle Ages." Womens' equality guaranteed.
"Wales in the 10th and 11th centuries was the only nation possessed of a national literature as distinct from an imperial in Latin . . . The people of Wales were the most civilized and most intellectual of the age" - French scholar Jacques Chevalier.
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