Identity mapped out.(News)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: April 6, 2006 | Copyright information

SIR - I have a map of Wales on my study wall which answers the question of whether we are British or Welsh or both.

It was printed in Holland by Abraham Ortelius around 1580 from the manuscripts of Humphrey Lhuyd of Denbigh.

The map is annotated in three languages - Latin, English and British. The British language on the map is, of course, Welsh.

Our ancestors had no doubt who they were - the original and only Britons.

The English, Vikin...

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