The Description of Wales
The Description of Wales
by Geraldus Cambrensis
FIRST PREFACE to Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
I, who, at the expense of three years' labour, arranged, a short time ago, in three parts, the Topography of Ireland, with a description of its natural curiosities, and who afterwards, by two years' study, completed in two parts the Vaticinal History of its Conquest; and who, by publishing the Itinerary of the Holy Man (Baldwin) through Cambria, prevented his labo ...