In the canon
The Description of Wales
Gerald of Wales
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1194
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 90
Hospitality here is not a courtesy but a law: no one in Wales begs, every house is open, and the guest's feet are washed by the daughters of the family before anyone asks his name. Gerald of Wales, Norman on one side and Welsh on the other, rode the country with an archbishop preaching crusade and came home with a book that cannot decide whether to praise his mother's people or prosecute them.
it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.
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