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Taliesin

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Taliesin was a sixth-century British poet whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, The Book of Taliesin. He was a renowned bard who is believed to have sung at the courts of at least three kings. Poems attributed to him were included in the fourteenth-century Llyfr Taliesin.

In 1960, Ifor Williams identified eleven of the medieval poems ascribed to Taliesin as possibly originating as early as the sixth century, and so possibly being composed by a historical Taliesin. The bulk of this work praises King Urien of Rheged and his son Owain mab Urien, although several of the poems indicate that Taliesin also served as court bard to King Brochfael Ysgithrog of Powys and his successor Cynan Garwyn, either before or during his t ...more

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	The Poems of Taliesin by Taliesin, Ifor Williams, J.E. Caerwyn Williams 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1425 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Armes Prydein: The Prophecy of Britain from the Book of Taliesin by Taliesin, Ifor Williams (Editor), Rachel Bromwich (Translator) 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1955 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taliesin Poems by Taliesin, Meirion Pennar (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1425	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems from the Book of Taliesin by Taliesin, John Gwenogvryn Evans (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1915 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preideu Annwn: The Spoils of Annwn by Taliesin, Sarah Higley (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Facsimile & text of the Book of Taliesin by Taliesin, John Gwenogvryn Evans 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taliesin: Or, the Bards and Druids of Britain. a Tr. of the Remains of the Earliest Welsh Bards, and an Examination of the Bardic Mysteries, by D.W. Nash really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radiant Brow: The Book of Taliesin by Taliesin, Miles Lowry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Altwalisische Heldendichtung: Kymrisch und deutsch (Reclams Universalbibliothek) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Dechymic pwy yw.
Creadt kyn dilyw.
Creadur kadarn
Heb gic heb ascwrn.
Heb wytheu heb waet.
Heb pen aheb traet.
Ny bed hyn ny byd ieu.
No get y dechreu.
Ny daw oe odeu
Yr ofyn nac agheu.
Ny dioes eisseu
Gan greaduryeu.

Guess who it is.
Created before the deluge.
A creature strong,
Without flesh, without bone,
Without veins, without blood,
Without head, and without feet.
It will not be older, it will not be younger,
Than it was in the beginning.
There will not come from his design
Fear or death.
He has no wants
From creatures.”
― Taliesin

tags: old-songs, riddles, wind

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“To pay flattery their country will bleed.”
― Taliesin

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“Monks congregate like dogs in a kennel,
From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge,
Is one the course of the wind, is one the water of the sea?
Is one the spark of the fire, of unrestrainable tumult?
Monks congregate like wolves,
From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge.
They know not when the deep night and dawn divide.
Nor what is the course of the wind, or who agitates it,
In what place it dies away, on what land it roars.”
― Taliesin

tags: damn-skippy, iconoclasm, old-songs

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