The leek
is one of the civic emblems of Wales, beat forth with the adage (in Welsh, the
adage is accepted as "Peter's leek", Cenhinen Bedr) on St. David’s
Day. According to one legend, King Cadwaladr of Gwynedd ordered his soldiers to
analyze themselves by cutting the vegetable on their helmets in an age-old
action adjoin the Saxons that took abode in a leek field. The Elizabethan
artist Michael Drayton stated, in contrast, that the attitude was a accolade to
Saint David, who ate alone leeks if he was fasting. Whatever the bark, the leek
has been accepted to be a attribute of Wales for a continued time; Shakespeare,
for example, refers to the custom of cutting a leek as an “ancient tradition”
in Henry V. In the play, Henry tells the Welsh administrator Fluellen that he,
too, is cutting a leek “for I am Welsh, you know, acceptable countryman.” The
1985 and 1990 British one batter bill buck the architecture of a leek in a
coronet, apery Wales.
Alongside
the added civic floral emblems of countries in the Commonwealth (including the
English Tudor Rose, Scottish thistle, Irish shamrock, Canadian maple leaf, and
Indian lotus), the Welsh leek appeared on the accession clothes of Elizabeth
II. It was advised by Norman Hartnell; if Hartnell asked if he could barter the
leek for the added aesthetically adorable Welsh daffodil, he was told no.
Perhaps
the a lot of arresting use of the leek, however, is as the cap brand of the
Welsh Guards, a regiment aural the Household Division of the British Army.
In
Romania, the leek is aswell broadly advised a attribute of Oltenia, a actual
arena in the southwestern allotment of the country.