Welcome to my channel! I’m Sarah Woodbury, and here you'll find videos about places, people, and the history of Wales.
With over two million books sold to date, I write books set in medieval Wales, which are available in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook. The first book in four of my series is FREE in ebook. They’re great places to start if you haven’t read my books before or are looking to branch out from a favorite series:
Daughter of Time (the prequel to the After Cilmeri series)
The Good Knight (the first Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mystery)
The Last Pendragon (the first of the Last Pendragon Saga)
Cold my Heart (the Lion of Wales series, book 1)
My newest series is The Welsh Guard Mysteries, set in 1284. Its latest release, Herald, is the fourth book in the series.
Haha, like that your last name is derived from Wodin, which means "crazed"! But truthfully, you look far from crazed. Enjoy your videos very much and anything medieval England. Think in another lifetime, I must have lived there! Hope I was a wealthy aristo and not a peasant or slave! 😊
You’re pronouncing all the names incorrectly! How irritating! My name in Angharad and you absolutely ruin the pronounciation of all these Welsh names! Awful :(
Great video as usual-always educational and the images and diagrams are superb. And I know comments aren’t supposed to be about your physical appearance, but I really like your hair style; makes you look so pretty.
Thank you. Your videos have been a respite from my usual weekly desk burdens. I'll look forward to the less than weekly schedule. I do hope that you will continue to send notices whenever there is a new one.
I just wanted to say thank you so much for taking me on a trip down memory lane. My grandparents lived in the village many years go, just up the road from the pub. I spent all my childhood summers there. I hope you took the time to look inside the Welsh church, it has a gorgeous carving of the double headed dragon of Dolwyddelan in the woodwork near the ceiling. And I also hope you took the time to go up Moel Siabod. We scattered my grandparent's ashes up there. Anyways, thanks again. :)
Of course, I'll stick around! I fully understand the time involved in making and editing videos! Just share what excites you two and we will wait for them! 🥰
Didn't realize how many videos you put together - WOW! Love watching them, they are a nice escape to another world, like your books - big Thank You for that. Glad you can take a well-deserved break and looking forward to future books and videos!
When something you enjoy becomes something you dread or feels like work its time to do as you are and take a step back. This will make those videos you do create more enjoyable again. I’ll look forward to those. And maybe someday you’ll do a book tour on the east coast some where near me in NJ. I would really enjoy that. Till next we meet again Take care both
Easy to see how it becomes so much work, doing this every week! It’s got to infringe on other things you both do! I’ll miss them, but feel sure it’s for the best! Wishing y’all blessings for the future! 🥰🥰🥰
You are both remarkable and I love how you work together, well despite Sarah firing Dan on Christmas! Lol! I think this is a wise decision. I always enjoy the videos and I know there are many of the existing ones I still need to watch.
Sarah and Dan; I think you made a very wise decision, loved all the video's you've put out. I'm addicted to the After Cilmeri series. Looking forward to future video's when you can, especially like the idea of a bit longer more in-depth video's. Thanks
I will miss seeing your regular weekly videos 😢 but look forward to the rest of After Cilmeri book tours and any videos you will do in Wales at your new 2nd home in Wales
I think you're both amazing and while my first thought at Sarah firing you Dan was "Oh Sarah!!" 😂 I realised that she was just looking out for you and taking some stress off you. And off herself too so she can spend more time writing for us. Yay ❤
What you have done is awesome and it is and was very much appreciated! I feel some more Wales videos coming on, not every week but I guess they'll be coming! :-D
My second look at this video. It’s like watching a ballet, with the ships paying homage to the Castle. So beautiful and relaxing. Thank you both for such a lovely video.
Our father took me and my brother to visit a very old historical church many years ago. We had to park the car and walk the reset off the way to the church similar to the church in the video there was just grass around the church no buildings in sight other than the church. Our father told us that it was a very old church and very historical that is why he tooks to see it I think that it was named after a Welsh saint
This is certainly one of the most exciting books of the Cilmeri Series! Altho, once you start reading Sarsh Woodbury’s Cilmeri series, you won’t want to stop.
It seems odd to me that a lot of contributors here seem to want to deny any association between St Patrick and Britain or Wales, even though St Patrick's own biography states that he came from (Roman) Britain and that he was of the Patrician class.
Having grown up in Ireland I cannot remember ever hearing that Patrick was from Wales. This seems to have been a convenient way of explaining the Irish slave raiders hop across the Irish sea to grab a welshman or two. In fact they voyaged much further than this. The Welsh language is similar to that of old Breton spoken in Brittany in France which would explain the assumption of his birthplace being in Wales. An excellent book by Irish clergyman Marcus Losack called "Rediscovering St. Patrick" gives a very different account or his origins. While on holiday in Brittany he by chance mentioned where he came from and was immediately referred to local historians who had a very detailed history of Patrick and his capture by Irish slavers. They said he was from a well off family who lived in a village near St. Malo. As in the previous comment its known that the Coptic church was established in France from an early time notably on the Ile de Lerins. This was where Patrick would have returned to study for the priesthood on his escape from Ireland and later establishing the Coptic monastic church in Ireland. To say that Wales at the far perimeter of the Roman empire was an established Christian centre of learning in nonsense. As a seafarer I can tell you that the journey under sail from Brittany to Ireland with the prevailing winds would make it very difficult to make a landing on the west coast but much easier to sail along the east coast after rounding lands end in Cornwall.
Interesting thoughts. I would say that the reason Breton is similar to Welsh is because Brittany was settled in the 5th century by the Welsh (Britons at the time) after the Romans departed, in order to escape the Saxon invasions. There is also no question that Christianity was well established in Britain among the Britons (who became the Welsh), particularly among the elite as inheritors of the Roman system. Pelagius, who was born in the mid-5th century, was a Briton and certainly a remarkable scholar, despite being condemned for heresy. Also, the story of Padrig's origins in Britain comes from his own writings. Citations are endless, but off the top of my head: www.confessio.ie/more/article_kelly#
@@SarahWoodburyBooks Indeed, there was a flight from Britain with the Saxon invasion, Patricks father being one who joined the exodus to Brittany from Dumbarton in Scotland where he is said to have married a local Breton princess after his arrival.. The Irish slave traders were akin to the Vikings and weren't picky about what they could loot and would butcher anyone who got in their way. Local historians near St. Malo identify Bannaven Tiburniae as Chateau Bonaven or Banaven where Patrick and his family lived and have detailed records of that merciless invasion.
Patrick's own writings state that he was born in Wales, captured by Irish raiders when he was 16, and taken to Ireland as a slave where he worked as a shepherd/herder. Why do the Irish find it so difficult to believe that Patrick was NOT born in Ireland?
@@dragonflowermusic Firstly, nowhere in Patricks confessio does he mention Wales, just a place name that sounded Welsh. Everyone but nobody believes he was born in Ireland. I don't know where you got that nonsense from. The accepted story about he being from Wales is based on a massive assumption built around name of his birthplace Bannaven Tiburniae.
Saint Patrick seems to be a fascinating character, it has been mooted that he was a contemporary of Saint David, and they may have been educated together, do you know if this is true? Some of the earliest Christians to arrive in Ireland were said to have been the Coptics. They may have travelled from Egypt to Spain and then from Spain along established sailing trade routes from Galatia to the British Isles. The larger island Albion would be 'Great Britain' and the smaller island Erin, now known as Ireland, which I like to think of as 'Little Britain'. Apparently one of the symbols used by these Coptic Christians was a snake, St Patrick came into conflict with this earlier settlement of Christians, hence the banishment of 'snakes' from Ireland
Interesting! I had heard too that Padrig knew St. David, but David was born around 520, so quite a bit later in history. The legend is that Padrig foresaw his birth.
A lovely location. The walls seem in very good shape. The grass and flora is well kept. As much as I enjoy the historical significance I really like the aesthetic's and views. .
I stopped the video as this book I haven’t read yet. But you mention here your granddaughter. You are so not old enough to have grandchildren! You look like a kid yourself to me!
I love the mountains in the background. Before your books, I never realized how mountainous Wales was. Also, that 3 masted ship near the castle, have you seen it sailing? I would think a tour on the water in the area would be fabulous! Loved it!
