Owen Williams discusses the folklore origins of ‘Yr Wyddfa’, the Welsh name for the no longer accepted ‘Snowdon’.
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Audio: Owen Williams
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Taken from BBC Radio 2 – Jeremy Vine, November 17th 2022
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