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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... O Gymro hen digamrwysg , Attebed vi . SION KENT . If there is a poet possessed of knowledge without bias , An old Welshman free from perverseness , Let him answer me . 1 PREFACE . It has been so generally represented that.
... O Gymro hen digamrwysg , Attebed vi . SION KENT . If there is a poet possessed of knowledge without bias , An old Welshman free from perverseness , Let him answer me . 1 PREFACE . It has been so generally represented that.
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... obtain some insight into the early history of Britain , found that a great store of information on that sub- ject was supposed to be contained in the works of the old British poets of the sixth and following centuries , contem-
... obtain some insight into the early history of Britain , found that a great store of information on that sub- ject was supposed to be contained in the works of the old British poets of the sixth and following centuries , contem-
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Taliesin David William Nash. British poets of the sixth and following centuries , contem- poraries , or nearly so , of Vortigern , Hengist , and Arthur , and of the great events of their era . The translations of the Rev. Edward Davies ...
Taliesin David William Nash. British poets of the sixth and following centuries , contem- poraries , or nearly so , of Vortigern , Hengist , and Arthur , and of the great events of their era . The translations of the Rev. Edward Davies ...
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... Poet and philosopher , priest and prophet , legislator and judge , his functions are as numerous , as the religion he professed and the authority which he exercised , are doubtful and indefinable . The true social position of the Druid ...
... Poet and philosopher , priest and prophet , legislator and judge , his functions are as numerous , as the religion he professed and the authority which he exercised , are doubtful and indefinable . The true social position of the Druid ...
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... poets . The Druids were priests and judges : august functions , filling to the eye of the stranger the whole field of vision ; hence the second order gave a name to the whole three . The Ovates were a mixed class , replenished from the ...
... poets . The Druids were priests and judges : august functions , filling to the eye of the stranger the whole field of vision ; hence the second order gave a name to the whole three . The Ovates were a mixed class , replenished from the ...
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