Fluellen: And I do believe your majesty takes
no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy’s day.
King Henry: I wear it for a memorable honour,
For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.
As I listened to John Metcalf’s Mapping Wales, I conjured a sky thick with Welsh archers’ arrows. The arrows weren’t the stuff of my imagination, but a scene from Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V. As one thing so often leads to another, I thought it time to give the film another look.
