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Plygain - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
Jun 26, 2018
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🕯️ Plygain – A Unique Welsh Christmas Tradition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plygain is a beautiful and ancient Welsh Christmas custom of singing carols in the early hours of Christmas morning, usually between 3am and dawn. The name comes from the Latin pulli cantus, meaning “cockcrow”, as the singing traditionally began before the rooster’s call. This tradition dates back at least to the 17th century, and possibly earlier, and is especially associated with rural communities in north and mid Wales. People wo
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🕯️ Plygain – A Unique Welsh Christmas Tradition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plygain is a beautiful and ancient Welsh Christmas custom of singing carols in the early hours of Christmas morning, usually between 3am and dawn. The name comes from the Latin pulli cantus, meaning “cockcrow”, as the singing traditionally began before the rooster’s call. This tradition dates back at least to the 17th century, and possibly earlier, and is especially associated with rural communities in north and mid Wales. People wo
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Join the singers of the village of Mallwyd - as Gwilym Bowen Rhys and Cynefin do in our latest episode - to keep the Welsh plygain carol tradition alive and get yourself in the festive spirit. 🎄 Listen here: pod.fo/e/20b485 ______________________________________ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ymunwch â chantorion pentref Mallwyd, fel y mae Gwilym Bowen Rhys a Cynefin yn gwneud yn ein pennod diweddaraf – i gadw traddodiad y canu plygain yn fyw, ac i brofi 'r ysbryd nadoligaidd Cymreig go iawn. 🎄 Gwrandewch yma
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Join the singers of the village of Mallwyd - as Gwilym Bowen Rhys and Cynefin do in our latest episode - to keep the Welsh plygain carol tradition alive and get yourself in the festive spirit. 🎄 Listen here: pod.fo/e/20b485 ______________________________________ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ymunwch â chantorion pentref Mallwyd, fel y mae Gwilym Bowen Rhys a Cynefin yn gwneud yn ein pennod diweddaraf – i gadw traddodiad y canu plygain yn fyw, ac i brofi 'r ysbryd nadoligaidd Cymreig go iawn. 🎄 Gwrandewch yma
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Plygain is a traditional Welsh Christmas service, known for early-morning, unaccompanied carol singing. Celebrated from Christmas Eve to Twelfth Night — today is the last day it’s traditionally held 🎶🏴 Gwasanaeth Nadolig traddodiadol Cymreig yw Plygain, sy’n enwog am ganu carolau di-gyfeiliant yn gynnar yn y bore. Fe’i dathlir o Noswyl Nadolig hyd Noswyl Ystwyll — heddiw yw’r diwrnod olaf y caiff ei gynnal yn draddodiadol 🎶🏴 | The Church in Wales / Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru
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Plygain is a traditional Welsh Christmas service, known for early-morning, unaccompanied carol singing. Celebrated from Christmas Eve to Twelfth Night — today is the last day it’s traditionally held 🎶🏴 Gwasanaeth Nadolig traddodiadol Cymreig yw Plygain, sy’n enwog am ganu carolau di-gyfeiliant yn gynnar yn y bore. Fe’i dathlir o Noswyl Nadolig hyd Noswyl Ystwyll — heddiw yw’r diwrnod olaf y caiff ei gynnal yn draddodiadol 🎶🏴 | The Church in Wales / Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru
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🎄 Our seasonal episode - out tomorrow - takes us to the village of Mallwyd in mid Wales to join the ancient tradition of the plygain carols. Here’s Matthew to explain more. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 For our Welsh listeners: Mae ein pennod nadoligaidd yn dod allan fory. 'Da ni'n ymweld â phentef Mallwyd yng nghanolbarth Cymru i fwynhau traddodiad y canu plygain. Dyma Matthew i esbonio mwy. | Folk on Foot
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🎄 Our seasonal episode - out tomorrow - takes us to the village of Mallwyd in mid Wales to join the ancient tradition of the plygain carols. Here’s Matthew to explain more. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 For our Welsh listeners: Mae ein pennod nadoligaidd yn dod allan fory. 'Da ni'n ymweld â phentef Mallwyd yng nghanolbarth Cymru i fwynhau traddodiad y canu plygain. Dyma Matthew i esbonio mwy. | Folk on Foot
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"Rhown foliant o'r mwyaf" efo Lo-fi Jones a Worldwide Welshman! #plygain #welsh #cymraeg #learnwelsh #dysgucymraeg | We Learn Welsh - Welsh Word of the Day
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"Rhown foliant o'r mwyaf" efo Lo-fi Jones a Worldwide Welshman! #plygain #welsh #cymraeg #learnwelsh #dysgucymraeg | We Learn Welsh - Welsh Word of the Day
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Plygain fendigedig yn eglwys St Dogfan, Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant nos Sul diwethaf. 10 parti a chynulleidfa dda er gwaetha’r eira! Byddai Esgob William Morgan yn falch ohonom! A very special Plygain carol service in Llanrhaeadr, restarting the tradition in the place where the Bible was translated into Welsh. | Cass Meurig
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Plygain fendigedig yn eglwys St Dogfan, Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant nos Sul diwethaf. 10 parti a chynulleidfa dda er gwaetha’r eira! Byddai Esgob William Morgan yn falch ohonom! A very special Plygain carol service in Llanrhaeadr, restarting the tradition in the place where the Bible was translated into Welsh. | Cass Meurig
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Welsh Language Christmas Carols & Songs with Lyrics & Translation (Carolau a Chaneuon Nadolig Cymraeg) - We Learn Welsh
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The history behind Y Plygain 🎶 An early morning Christmas service in Wales #Christmas #Festive #BBC #BBCWalesChristmas | BBC Cymru Wales
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Some old traditions of the festive season from Wales: 1. The Plygain: start Christmas morning at a candlelit carol service before the sunrises. Traditionally sung unaccompanied and in close harmony. 2. Hunting the wren: A wren (dead) is carried from house to house by a troop of men, dancing & singing on Boxing Day (the feast of St Steven). They have a drink at every house. 3. Holming: in its earliest form, quite brutal. On Boxing Day morning the last maiden in the house to rise is beaten with ho
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From the Plygain Christmas carol service to the Mari Lwyd, here are 6 Welsh festive traditions 🎅🎄 | BBC Cymru Wales
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