Posts Tagged as ‘hiraeth’

26 May 2008

Hiraeth a hwyl

Note to casual readers: you won’t find anything profound here, just an account of my lovely weekend.
Hiraeth is a special Welsh word which means longing and a touch of homesickness, though it is, curiously, sometimes viewed as a positive, energizing feeling, while hwyl is analogous to the Irish word craic, i.e. good fun and entertainment. [...]