Having defeated his uncle in a long civil war, and come to power at the age of 21, Llewelyn is determined to unite Wales and to fend off the incursions of the Norman French and stop their encroachments into Wales. One man who would have sold his soul for Wales is Llewelyn Ab Iorwerth, Prince of Gwynydd. In Here Be Dragons, Sharon Kay Penman evokes a Wales that one might, indeed, be willing to sell one’s soul for.
Seeing the man’s medallion which proclaims him Governor of Wales, he remarks “I can understand a man selling his soul to the devil for possession of the world, but for Wales? This evoked laughter even among Moore’s accusers, but the levity didn’t help Moore in the end. I’ll always remember the scene in the movie A Man for All Seasons where Sir Thomas Moore, being tried in Henry the Eighth’s Star Chamber, confronts the man who betrayed him.
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