Book of Taliesin

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A fourteenth century manuscript in Middle Welsh, believed to preserve poems of a 6th century British poet, who may have been bard (court poet) at the courts of at least three Celtic British kings.

  • The Book of Taliesin  - An online exhibition by the National Library of Wales of the manuscrip of the Book of Taliesin (Peniarth MS 2) from the the fourteenth century.
  • The Grave of Taliesin  - Information about the grave of Taliesin, the greatest of Welsh poets, who (according to tradition) was born in the parish of Llangynfelyn in mid-Wales, and returned to die there.
  • The Life of Taliesin the Bard  - A guide to what little is known of the 6th century bard, associated with a mediaeval collection of his poems, the Book of Taliesin.
  • Llyfr Taliesin - The Book of Taliesin  - Provides the Welsh text of the 14th century manuscript, with a translation into English by W. F Skene, 1858.
 
 
 
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