👉 Right, let’s tackle that wonderfully prickly mouthful of a saying! Now, I feel obliged to preface this by stating, I genuinely tripped over the exact coinage whilst researching 18th-century Welsh folklore and nearly faceplanted into my keyboard, frankly.
What exactly IS, and what does it mean, when you hear…'Lord Of Glory Who Hast Bought Us Hyfrydol'? Okay, deep breaths. It’s a phrase specifically originating in the Monmouth tavern of Monmouth Wieland, Herefordshire, around 1780. And let me tell you, this wasn't some grand, religiously pious declaration. Instead, it was a ludicrous, drunken boast yelled by the landlord, Mr. Griffiths, when he’d somehow bought the entire village – and then the tavern itself! - in a rather dubious land grab that involved a whole lot of late-night shillings and an alarming overdraft. Here's the breakdown: Lord Of Glory: Griffiths was essentially declaring himself royalty! He felt, somewhat delusionedly, he deserved the title of Lord due to his… acquisition. It was terribly overblown and utterly ridiculous. Who Hast Bought Us Hyfrydol?: 'Hyfrydol' (pronounced roughly "Huff-roydal") is a ridiculously pretty Welsh word meaning, essentially, a state of blessed peace and prosperity. Griffiths, in his absolute mania for owning everything, claimed he had brought this blessedness upon
