Talk:Twm Siôn Cati

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[edit] Source for the arrow through the clothes story?

I have substantially added to this article. Two things which I have not kept are the sentence Most notably, he was said to have avoided harming an enemy by shooting him with an arrow that merely pinned his clothes to his saddle. and the link to [1]

Whilst I do understand that Twm Sion Cati is the subject of oral tradition and folktale, I can find no other (written) reference to this story beyond that URL, which gives no sources, not even "it is said" sort.

One other source I found which is worth reading Ystradffin: a descriptive poem with an appendix -- skim right to the end of it and read the notes on pages 183 and on. I couldn't find a way to work that into the article, but it's nice corroboration of multiple versions of tales circulating in the area in the 1820s.

--Telsa 18:43, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Names

I have no idea how relevant it is, but the dates given for TSC are half a century after the Act of Union which started the process of getting the Welsh to take surnames. I just thought it was interesting and I don't know enough to know whether Twm's name actually counted as a proper surname. --Telsa 18:43, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 1960s BBC schools music programmes

I remember when I was at primary school in England (which would put it somewhere in the years just preceding 1970) we were taught music with the aid of a TV? radio? series about TSC: stories and songs to sing and play along with. It may have been part of the "Let's Make Music" series, though I'm not sure. If I manage to find any accurate information about this, would it be a welcome addition to the page? Kay Dekker 19:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)