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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... . The opinions generally maintained by the Welsh writers and historians on the subject of the origin of the Cymry , may be summed up in the words of a learned and judicious writer 1 on Welsh literature , Mr. Stephens , 1 " that.
... . The opinions generally maintained by the Welsh writers and historians on the subject of the origin of the Cymry , may be summed up in the words of a learned and judicious writer 1 on Welsh literature , Mr. Stephens , 1 " that.
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... learned writers on early Welsh history , ' that the interval be- tween the termination of the Roman dominion in Britain , and the close of the seventh century , is a historical blank ; " for it must be confessed that the Welsh , though ...
... learned writers on early Welsh history , ' that the interval be- tween the termination of the Roman dominion in Britain , and the close of the seventh century , is a historical blank ; " for it must be confessed that the Welsh , though ...
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... learned philologer , Dr. Meyer , citing the Welsh Triads for the elucidation of British ethno- logy , and giving a metrical German and a prose English trans- lation of a poem ascribed to Taliesin , as " one of the most ancient monuments ...
... learned philologer , Dr. Meyer , citing the Welsh Triads for the elucidation of British ethno- logy , and giving a metrical German and a prose English trans- lation of a poem ascribed to Taliesin , as " one of the most ancient monuments ...
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... learned arts had been entitled , were , five free acres of land ; exemption from personal service in war ; permission to pass unmolested from one district to another in time of war as well as of peace ; support and maintenance wherever ...
... learned arts had been entitled , were , five free acres of land ; exemption from personal service in war ; permission to pass unmolested from one district to another in time of war as well as of peace ; support and maintenance wherever ...
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... learned Welshman and scholar , appears readily to have credited the fantastic reveries of Edward Wil- liams , otherwise called Iolo Morganwg , and the exaggerations , if not forgeries , with which he pretended to support them . The ...
... learned Welshman and scholar , appears readily to have credited the fantastic reveries of Edward Wil- liams , otherwise called Iolo Morganwg , and the exaggerations , if not forgeries , with which he pretended to support them . The ...
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