Taliesin, Or, The Bards and Druids of Britain: A Translation of the Remains of the Earliest Welsh Bards, and an Examination of the Bardic Mysteries |
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... Book of Caermarthen― The Red Book of Hergest - The Myvyrian MSS . - The Bards their social position - The Laws of Howel - Bardic Con- gresses - Regulations of Gruffyd ap Cynan - Different kinds of Musical Composition - The Cler , or ...
... Book of Caermarthen― The Red Book of Hergest - The Myvyrian MSS . - The Bards their social position - The Laws of Howel - Bardic Con- gresses - Regulations of Gruffyd ap Cynan - Different kinds of Musical Composition - The Cler , or ...
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... Book of the Cathedral of Llandaff , called also the Book of 1 Grammatica Celtica . Lipsiæ , 1853 . 2 It is thus prefaced : - " Nemnivus invented these letters on the occasion of a certain Saxon remarking reproachfully that the Britons ...
... Book of the Cathedral of Llandaff , called also the Book of 1 Grammatica Celtica . Lipsiæ , 1853 . 2 It is thus prefaced : - " Nemnivus invented these letters on the occasion of a certain Saxon remarking reproachfully that the Britons ...
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... Book of Caermarthen , in the library of the Vaughans at Hengwrt . It is a quarto of 54 leaves , the first 45 being in a different hand , and appa- rently older than the rest . The latter portion of the MS . con- tains an elegy on the ...
... Book of Caermarthen , in the library of the Vaughans at Hengwrt . It is a quarto of 54 leaves , the first 45 being in a different hand , and appa- rently older than the rest . The latter portion of the MS . con- tains an elegy on the ...
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... Book of Hergest , from 100 to 150 years later . We have also an interval of nearly six hundred years be- tween the time at which they are supposed to have been com- posed , and the earliest MS . in which they are found . There is ...
... Book of Hergest , from 100 to 150 years later . We have also an interval of nearly six hundred years be- tween the time at which they are supposed to have been com- posed , and the earliest MS . in which they are found . There is ...
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... Book at an earlier period , as the poetry begins at the 513th page , while at the 208th page occurs " A Brief Chronology from Adam to A.D. 1318 ; " and at the 499th page , " A Chronological History of the Saxons , from their first ...
... Book at an earlier period , as the poetry begins at the 513th page , while at the 208th page occurs " A Brief Chronology from Adam to A.D. 1318 ; " and at the 499th page , " A Chronological History of the Saxons , from their first ...
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