i wait for you and your kiss beyond the mists on the sea of dreams at ynys afallach
© Michael Raven
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shamanic word nomad
Gaelic? Welsh?
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Welsh
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Aha! I thought so when I saw a word starting with a “y”. Love that about Welsh. I also love how some of their place names are like 80 letters long and mostly vowels.
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And Irish Gaelic (it’s been a while) seemed mostly consonants when I was trying to learn it, not all of the combinations with a logic I could follow.
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Riiiiight. Lotsa Ws and Ds lol and Ys. Double Ls too. Nvm… lol
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Of course, the copious amounts of single malt that the bartender/owner at the pub where I was learning probably didn’t help matters with memory.
“Right, now this one here has a right peaty flavor I think you might enjoy. What? No? Well, can’t let that go to waste! [tips it back]. Now this one is more leathery and…”
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Yeah, the Irish Well was one of those places where everyone was a friend you hadn’t met yet, unless you had met before. In which case, you were already friends.
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Yeah… Ireland in general feels like that. Wonderful land with wonderful people with the absolute best and most clever sense of humour on this earth.
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Irish is interesting. Many letters don’t at all sound like what they are. Siobhan = Sha-vahn…. huh?!?! But anyway… carry on… lol
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Oh, the bh=v I do recall. I also wanted to name one of my daughters Siobhan, but the argument was made that it would be butchered by teachers, and so it did not happen. 😦
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Fair enough. Lol Irish names are not for the non-Irish-speaking, I guess!
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