The Impact of the English Conquest on the Welsh Language

After the english conquest of wales, thousands and thousands of young men are recruited from wales to go fight in scotland. And i did some work on the kind of numbers from the muster rolls, because wev really detailed lists of exactly who signed up and who collected their weekly pay all the way back to the middle ages. In terms of fighting age men, in the first couple of decades after the conquest of w Wales, maybe 25 % of fighting aged men at some point sir ved in the english army. These are people coming from all over wales, because the economies, you know, in the dolldrums, and i's not much aspiration. There certainly trade