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Bouddica's Lines[]

I'm not a fluent Welsh speaker by any means and I have only cursory experience with Celtic languages at large, but "Bydd, siwr" seems like they are trying to say "So it shall be, sure" or "Sure, it will be so". This is solely based on "Bydd" being "third-person singular future colloquial" of the Welsh word Bod (to be).

This might be an error, though to my knowledge it seems fairly natural; Celtic languages traditionally lacked the words "Yes" and "No" in favour of replying with the positive or negative form of the verb ("An Bhfuil Sé Anseo?"  "Tá Sé"/"Níl Sé": "Is he here?" "He is" or "He isn't"). A proper Welsh speaker could certainly correct this if it is mistaken, but I would sooner see the proper form than I would have it written off as "Incomprehensible".

-Fauxlosophe (talk) 00:30, September 8, 2014 (UTC)

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