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, Page 511858 |
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... Britons in that darkness which they could not dispel , they have confined their researches to the Saxons . " Notwithstanding this acknowledged deficiency in the true sources of history , it is still maintained by the very latest writers ...
... Britons in that darkness which they could not dispel , they have confined their researches to the Saxons . " Notwithstanding this acknowledged deficiency in the true sources of history , it is still maintained by the very latest writers ...
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... Britons , have been pre- served , though long concealed by the shades of a difficult and obscure language . " " The mystic lore of the Druids , and those songs which are full of their old mythology , were extant and in repute during the ...
... Britons , have been pre- served , though long concealed by the shades of a difficult and obscure language . " " The mystic lore of the Druids , and those songs which are full of their old mythology , were extant and in repute during the ...
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... Britons , after the confusion which immediately followed the overthrow of the Roman power in the island , had gained the ascendance , they resumed the laws , language , and traditions of their ancestors , with the important exception ...
... Britons , after the confusion which immediately followed the overthrow of the Roman power in the island , had gained the ascendance , they resumed the laws , language , and traditions of their ancestors , with the important exception ...
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... Britons ; Dr. Giles's History of the Ancient Britons ; Wood's Ancient British Church ; Owen's Welsh Dictionary , and certain Institutional Triads , in which the opinions and " sermons " of these orders are supposed to be preserved ...
... Britons ; Dr. Giles's History of the Ancient Britons ; Wood's Ancient British Church ; Owen's Welsh Dictionary , and certain Institutional Triads , in which the opinions and " sermons " of these orders are supposed to be preserved ...
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... Britons had no letters ; whereupon Nemnivus at once made these up out of his own invention , and so got rid of the reproach cast upon his nation . " 3 These glosses have been published by Zeuss in an Appendix to his Grammatica Celtica ...
... Britons had no letters ; whereupon Nemnivus at once made these up out of his own invention , and so got rid of the reproach cast upon his nation . " 3 These glosses have been published by Zeuss in an Appendix to his Grammatica Celtica ...
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