Celtic literature often contains references to castles of glass. In his excellent 'Dictionary of Celtic Mythology' (OUP 2000, ISBN 0-19-280120-1) Dr. James MacKillop has this to say: "The transparent, brittle, man made material has often provoked the Celtic imagination. The Welsh Caer Wydyr (Fortress of Glass) implied a vision of the Otherworld. ... Welshmen used the name Ynys Wydrin (Glass Island) for Glastonbury in pre-Saxon times, although the English place-name is not a translation of it."
Whereas it is fascinating to speculate on the creativity of a people who could imagine great glass buildings more than a thousand years before it became possible to construct them - it is interesting to note that, whether by accident or design, the building proposed to house the modern Welsh Assembly would itself be a "castle of glass".

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