‘For I am Welsh you know’ – Welshmen, myth and reality at Agincourt
“Your majesty says very true: if your majestie is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps; which, your majesty knows, to this hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Davy’s day.”
Fluellen, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 7
For St. David’s day it seemed appropriate to address one of the abiding myths surrounding the battle of Agincourt.
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