There, forgetting, to some extent, their quarrels, they took the name of the Cymry, which means the "Brethren," though the English, unable to understand their language, spoke of them contemptuously as the "Welsh," or the "Strangers."
"Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion"
Beatrice Clay
V. Here came the brown Phoenician, The man of trade and toil- Here came the proud Milesian, A hungering for spoil; And the Firbolg and the Cymry, And the hard, enduring Dane, And the iron Lords of Normandy, With the Saxons in their train.
"Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry"
Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston
The language and literature of the ancient Cymry or Welsh had made no impression on their Anglo-Saxon conquerors.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers