Excerpt from The Book of the Princes of WalesAwaiting this event, tribe after tribe, and people after people, sunk in Slavery to the Saxon. Cymru alone, that district which the invaders contemptuously named Wales - indicative of its being a strange or unknown land to them - became the fortress within whose limits there assembled the stout hearts who refused to despair of their country. A nation was there organised the chiefs of which, occasionally styled kings, were more generally known as princes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.