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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... tradition only . The difference between the condition of the songs of the " History of Taliesin " in the Mabinogion , which were , if we may use the expression , " edited " by Thomas ab Einion in the thirteenth century , the songs on ...
... tradition only . The difference between the condition of the songs of the " History of Taliesin " in the Mabinogion , which were , if we may use the expression , " edited " by Thomas ab Einion in the thirteenth century , the songs on ...
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... : Irish and Scandinavian Legends - The Welsh and Irish Druids - Absence of Welsh Tradition respect- ing the Druids - The Bardic Mystery - Conclusion 307-320 321-341 TALIESIN ; OR , THE BARDS AND DRUIDS OF BRITAIN Xii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... : Irish and Scandinavian Legends - The Welsh and Irish Druids - Absence of Welsh Tradition respect- ing the Druids - The Bardic Mystery - Conclusion 307-320 321-341 TALIESIN ; OR , THE BARDS AND DRUIDS OF BRITAIN Xii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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... tradition and fable of which it is composed . " Our knowledge of the affairs of Britain , previous to the introduction of Christianity among the Anglo - Saxons " ( that is , the commencement of the seventh century ) , says Sir Francis ...
... tradition and fable of which it is composed . " Our knowledge of the affairs of Britain , previous to the introduction of Christianity among the Anglo - Saxons " ( that is , the commencement of the seventh century ) , says Sir Francis ...
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... tradition , attracted the attention of the romance writers , who gradually invested them with a cloud of fable , which at last , when arranged and regularly digested , was suffered to usurp the place of history . When the Armo- rican ...
... tradition , attracted the attention of the romance writers , who gradually invested them with a cloud of fable , which at last , when arranged and regularly digested , was suffered to usurp the place of history . When the Armo- rican ...
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... traditions if not the history of the Britons , for this obscure period of the fifth and sixth centuries . " It may be asked , " says the Rev. Archdeacon Williams , 1 " how has it come to pass , if great events marked the epoch between ...
... traditions if not the history of the Britons , for this obscure period of the fifth and sixth centuries . " It may be asked , " says the Rev. Archdeacon Williams , 1 " how has it come to pass , if great events marked the epoch between ...
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