Today as has become traditional I mark St David's Day/ Dydd Dewi Sant. Saint David is the patron saint of Wales. This day was chosen to commemorate St David's death on this day around 589 AD. It has been celebrated as a national day within Wales since the 18th century.
I love my country, but avoid the nationalism, I prefer the mystical deep streams.
So here I offer you this beautiful song from Bob Delyn a'r Ebillion called Pethau Bychain Dewi Sant ( St David's Little Things) from the album Dore .Happy St David's Day/ Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus. Heddwch/peace
Pwy oedd Dewi Sant. Who was St David?
Dewi Sant oedd nawdd sant Cymru. Yn ol straeon amdano, bu fyw am dros 100 mlynedd a bu farw ar Dydd Mawrth, y cyntaf o Fawrth (Gwyl Dewi Sant heddiw). Ei eiriau i'w ddilynwyr oedd mewn pregeth ar y dydd Sul blaenoral. Meddai Byddwch yn llawen, a cadewch eich ffydd ac eich cred. Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd yt ydych wedi fy ngweld i yn ei wneud. Fe gerddaf i y llwybr y troediodd ein cyndeidiau.
It is claimed that David lived for over 100 years, and he died on a Tuesday 1 March (now St David's Day) His last words to his followers were in a sermon on the previous Sunday. Rhygyfarch transcribes these as ' Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed. Do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us.' 'Do the little things in life' ( Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd) is today a very well known phrase in Welsh.
Geiriau
Pethau bychain Dewi Sant
nid swn tan ond swn tant.
Nid derw mawr ond adar mân,
nid haul a lleuad ond gwreichion tân.
Ond o, dyna chi strach, trio cael hyd i sach
i gadw'r holl bethau bach.
Pethau bychain Dewi Sant,
y ll'godan ond nid yr eliffant.
A darnau'r gwlith nid dwr y moroedd,
ond yn y briga', stwr y mae.
Ond o, dyna chi strach, trio cael hyd i sach
i gadw'r holl bethau bach.
Pethau bychain Dewi Sant,
swn 'yn traed ni yn y nant.
Yr hada' yn disgyn yma a thraw,
a'r tamad, y tamad ola' o wenith yn dy law.
Ond o, dyna chi strach,
trio cael hyd i sach i gadw'r holl bethau bach.
Map y byd yn llyfr y plant,
pethau bychain Dewi Sant.
Y pellter sydd rhwng dant a dant ar ol nawdeg naw a chant
pethau bychain Dewi Sant.
Ond o, dyna chi strach,
trio cael hyd i sach i gadw'r holl bethau bach.
English Translation Lyrics:
St David's little things,
not the sound of fire
but the sound of chords.
Not a large oak but small birds,
not the sun and moon but the sparks of fire.
But oh, what a hassle it is to try and find a sack
to keep all of the little things.
St David's little things,
the mouse but not the eliphant.
And the dew drops, not the water of the seas,
but in the branches, uproar is found
But oh, what a hassle it is to try and find
a sack to keep all of the little things.
St David's little things,
the sound of our footsteps in the stream.
The seeds fall here and there,
and the scrap, the last scrap of wheat in your palm.
But oh, what a hassle it is to try and find a sack
to keep all of the little things.
The world's atlas in a children's book,
St David's little things.
The distance between a tooth and a tooth between ninety nine and a hundred - St David's little things. But oh, what a hassle it is to try and find
a sack to keep all of the little things.
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