Sorry, but this is a 'What I have failed to learn today' post.
Today is Owain Glyndŵr day. Fine. Lots of flags and bunting on the shops and pubs, bands in the park etc.
However, because local tradition has it that his mother1 was from here, ffair Elen is our variant.
But, maybe due to poor Google fu, I can find no evidence that she was from by 'ere (as we say um.. by 'ere)
Me in the pub. "How do you know?"
Locals. "Everybody knows."
Me. "How do they know?"
Locals. "Everybody knows"
Google doesn't help. Did she work weekends in the Spar?
Yet again, I have failed to learn.
1 Elen ferch Tomas ap Llywelyn