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The Journey Through Wales

Gerald of Wales

Form
Form Travel Writing
Year
Year 1191
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 300

At Haverfordwest a crowd wept and took the cross after a sermon in Latin and French, preached to men who spoke only Welsh and understood not a word of it, and the preacher, delighted, wrote it down. Gerald rode the whole circuit of Wales at the Archbishop of Canterbury's side, recruiting for the Third Crusade, and could not keep to the subject for a page.

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The Journey Through Wales, Gerald of Wales

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