Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?
Promoting Wales in the USA
Just digging up Braveheart again. Our Scottish cousins might not be pleased to know but Wallace, in fact, means Welsh or Wales. The name Wallace was the spoken Scottish form of Wales/Welsh coming from the Old French "Waleis" and Old English "Wealas". Furthermore, William Wallace was born in the Brythonic "Welsh" Scottish lowlands or Yr Hen Ogledd. The area included Cumbria up to Kingdom of Ystrad Clud (Strathclyde) , where the peoples of this area were known as the 'Walensis' right up to the 13th century. William Wallace's great grandfather was, in fact, Richard Walensis of Kilmarnock. The Walensis and "Wales Welsh" thought of themselves as one and the same people. So in the vernacular of the time, the English would have considered themselves to be fighting the great Scottish hero "William the Welsh" for the conquest of Scotland!
