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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... notice ; and their literature , cultivated and abundant , lays claim to being the most ancient in modern Europe . " Without attempting to discuss the merely conjectural part of this statement , the derivation of the modern Cymry or ...
... notice ; and their literature , cultivated and abundant , lays claim to being the most ancient in modern Europe . " Without attempting to discuss the merely conjectural part of this statement , the derivation of the modern Cymry or ...
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... notices of the Welsh Bards , or of their music , occurs until the publication of the laws of Howel Dda , in the tenth century . According to the Welsh accounts , towards the close of the eleventh century , " the great Prince Gruffydd ap ...
... notices of the Welsh Bards , or of their music , occurs until the publication of the laws of Howel Dda , in the tenth century . According to the Welsh accounts , towards the close of the eleventh century , " the great Prince Gruffydd ap ...
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... notice of which had been given a year and a day before by proclamation through all Britain and Ireland . The musical Bards of North Wales and South Wales , who had been expressly invited to the festival and a poetical contest , were ...
... notice of which had been given a year and a day before by proclamation through all Britain and Ireland . The musical Bards of North Wales and South Wales , who had been expressly invited to the festival and a poetical contest , were ...
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... notice of such compositions could not fail to have been preserved . To the latter view two circumstances appear to give great probability . The name Tal - iesin , " shining fore- head " is connected with the romance history of the Bard ...
... notice of such compositions could not fail to have been preserved . To the latter view two circumstances appear to give great probability . The name Tal - iesin , " shining fore- head " is connected with the romance history of the Bard ...
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... notice by Geoffrey of so famous a character as Taliesin is represented to have been , is , at least , somewhat extraordinary . According to the genealogies of Taliesin , which have been published from manuscripts of which the dates are ...
... notice by Geoffrey of so famous a character as Taliesin is represented to have been , is , at least , somewhat extraordinary . According to the genealogies of Taliesin , which have been published from manuscripts of which the dates are ...
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