The "Welsh fought eachother more than anyone else" lie proven to be bull s*it

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The same people who like to put the Welsh down and try to discredit everything about Welsh history by dismissing anything Welsh people can be proud of as "nationalist fantasy", also often come up with the words "Welsh fought each other more than anyone else". 

So to see if this was true I went through my 77 pages of Welsh wars, battles, sieges, skirmishes, raids etc and counted them. 

This is what I found.

Welsh vs Saxons =  57 17%

Welsh vs Normans = 118 37%

Welsh vs Vikings = 45 14%

Welsh vs Welsh = 56 17

Nobody could tell me when the Normans become English, so I simply called them Normans up to the Glyndŵr rising 

Welsh vs English   = 41 12%

Total  317


Total Battles that wasn't Welsh vs Welsh  272

Here are the dates.


Welsh vs saxons  

616

620 - 626

630 

630 

633

633

642 

655 

658

658

682  

720  

722 

728 

735

743 

753  

760 

765 

769

776 

778

784

784 

795

796  

798 

816 

818

818

820  

822 

828 

830 

849

853  

865  

870  

873 

877 

880 

940  

942

962

985

1012

1031 

1035

1039 

1052

1055 

1056

1059

1062  

1063

1065  


Welsh vs Normans

1067 

1067 

1073 

1075 

1085

1091

1092  

1093

1093

1094 

1094 

1094

1094

1095 

1095

1096  

1097

1098

1098

1100

1108

1114

1114

1116 

1121  

1121

1127

1134 

1136

1136 

1136

1136

1136

1136

1137 

1144 

1145 

1146

1146 

1146 

1147 

1149 

1150 

1150 

1151

1153

1157

1159

1163 

1163 

1165 

1165 

1165 

1167 

1168  

1170

1176

1185 

1189 

1196  

1202 

1210 

1210 

1211 

1212 

1213

1215 

1216 

1217

1220

1223 

1223 

1223 

1228

1228

1231 

1231 

1233

1233

1233

1240 

1241 

1244

1245 

1245 

1255 

1256 

1257

1257

1257

1258 

1262 

1263 

1263 

1263 

1265 

1266 

1277

1282 

1282 

1282

1282

1282

1282

1282

1283 

1287

1294 

1294 

1294 

1294 

1294 

1295 

1295 

1316 

1345


Welsh vs Vikings

850

854 

856  

856

871 

872  

876 

876 

878 

879 

890  

890 

893

893 

894

902 

903

904 

915 

918 

952 

961 

963

968

968 

971

972

981

987

988

992

993

995

999

1002

1005

1022

1039 

1039 

1042 

1044  

1049

1150 


Welsh vs Welsh

710 

813 

815

853  

949  

952

954 

980

1000

1018

1022

1032 

1033

1034

1041  

1044  

1044  

1047

1055 

1055 

1069

1072

1074 

1075 

1075

1078 

1080 

1081

1081 

1085  

1088

1091 

1093

1096

1111

1118 

1125

1132

1143 

1150

1162

1170

1170

1188  

1194

1194

1194

1197 

1198 

1199

1202 

1256 

1256 

1257

1258 


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