FuriesHe was too wise to suppose that they could live in peace and contentment, for he knew that they lived in an era of devastation and insecurity. There were parts of the country that offered little temptation to the invader; the rocks of Eryri and Meirionydd, the uplands of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi gave scanty scope for plunder or profitable settlement and the Viking ships rarely visited the broad stretches of Cardigan Bay. But the corn lands of Anglesey, open to attack by sea, the creeks and easily accessed anchorages of Dyfed, and the fertile regions to which the Severn estuary allowed continual inroads were all sources of anxiety to the Welsh chieftains.
The worry that a man could not wander around unarmed lest he stumble across a raiding party ensured that, as usual, the four hun
