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Wales Photo Gallery
Photographs by Jim Richardson
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 icky Fairbridge, alias Guy of Saxony, a member of the Harlech Medieval Society, prepares to take part in a demonstration of battle techniques in Caernarfon Castle. "The great castles almost all have weekend programs of historic interest," says Richardson. "Often one of the reenactment groups will be about, wriggling into their chain mail and bashing each other over the head with swords." Dr. Robyn Lewis, former archdruid of Wales's National Eisteddfod—an annual cultural celebration dating to the 12th century honoring top poets and writers in the Welsh language—wryly notes that most Welsh castles were built by English invaders: "We're very rich in castles—that meant it was quite a job to keep us down."
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