By Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) - A British national park, which attracts millions of visitors every year, has ditched its burning beacon logo and.
By Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) - A British national park, which attracts millions of visitors every year, has ditched its burning beacon logo and.
By Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) - A British national park, which attracts millions of visitors every year, has ditched its burning beacon logo and.
Snowedon,
Snewedon ⦠its changed spellings are a march through history) is thought to have been bestowed by Saxon sailors, for whom it would have been a notable landmark as they navigated the channel from Traeth Mawr. (The etymology explains why the newspaper favourite âMount Snowdonâ, in other words âmount snow hillâ, is so egregious.) As the Guardian country diarist Jim Perrin notes in his book Snowdon: the Story of a Welsh Mountain,
Snawdune was written down in 1095, while Yr Wyddfa appeared in 1284. The name of the nearby peak Cnicht is also said to come from Old English, being derived from the word for knight â it is shaped like a helmet â though a Welsh origin has also been claimed.
First published on Thu 29 Apr 2021 05.37 EDT
Most of the hundreds of thousands of visitors who hike to the top of Wales’s highest mountain each year know it as Snowdon. But a task group is to examine whether this English moniker should be ditched and only its Welsh name – Yr Wyddfa – used.
A motion was brought by the county councillor John Pughe Roberts calling for the Snowdonia National Park Authority to refer to the mountain only by its Welsh name and also to drop “Snowdonia” in favour of the Welsh Eryri.
Roberts told the Guardian on Thursday he felt it was important that old Welsh placenames were not lost, and the park authority needed to set an example. “If you lose the old names, you lose the heritage, you lose all the things that lie behind that name. If you lose the name, you lose an important part of the history of the area.”