This article is about the medieval Welsh manuscript. For the album by Deep Purple, see The Book of Taliesyn.
For other uses, see Taliesin (disambiguation).
Book of Taliesin
Aberystwyth, NLW, Peniarth MS 2
facsimile, folio 13
Also known as
Llyfr Taliesin
Date
First half of the 14th century
Size
38 folios
Contents
some 60 Welsh poems
The Book of Taliesin (Welsh: Llyfr Taliesin) is one of the most famous of Middle Welsh manuscripts, dating from the first half of the 14th century though many of the fifty-six poems it preserves are taken to originate in the 10th century or before.
The volume contains some of the oldest poems in Welsh, possibly but not certainly dating back to the sixth century and to a real poet called Taliesin (though these, if genuine, would have been composed in the Cumbric dialect of Brittonic-speaking early medieval north Britain, being adapted to the Welsh dialect of Brittonic in the course of their transmission in Wales).
The BookofTaliesin (Welsh: Llyfr Taliesin) is one of the most famous of Middle Welsh manuscripts, dating from the first half of the 14th century though...
Middle Welsh manuscript, the BookofTaliesin. Taliesin was a renowned bard who is believed to have sung at the courts of at least three kings. In 1960...
the album was taken from the 14th-century BookofTaliesin. The structure of the album is similar to that of their first, with four original songs and...
Peniarth 3 gives ‘Kyrrytuen’, The BookofTaliesin variously gives ‘Cerituen’, ‘Kerrituen’ and ‘Kerritwen’, while The Red Bookof Hergest gives ‘Kerituen’. So...
manuscripts, which include the Red Bookof Hergest, the White Bookof Rhydderch, the Bookof Aneirin and the BookofTaliesin. Other works connected to Welsh...
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The Hanes Taliesin (Historia Taliesin, The Tale ofTaliesin) is a legendary account of the life of the poet Taliesin recorded in the mid-16th century by...
a source of instinctive knowledge. On connections between awen as poetic inspiration and as an infusion from the divine, The BookofTaliesin often implies...
as the 9th century or as late as the 12th) preserved in the BookofTaliesin. The meaning of the poem is in many places obscure, but it seems to describe...
prominently in the Welsh Triads, the BookofTaliesin and the Stanzas of the Graves. The name Gwydion may be interpreted as "Born of Trees". Gilfaethwy, nephew...
Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin and the BookofTaliesin. The bards Aneirin and Taliesin may be legendary reflections of historical bards active in...
several of the mythological poems attributed to Taliesin in the BookofTaliesin. The date of their composition is uncertain but probably predates the Norman...
the couple established Wright's architectural apprentice program and Taliesin Fellowship. In 1940, Olgivanna and Frank, along with their son-in-law William...
the Dialogue ofTaliesin and Ugnach, a dialogue-poem found in the Black Bookof Carmarthen. Within the narrative, the character ofTaliesin states: "When...
Preiddeu Annwn (English: The Spoils of Annwfn) is a cryptic poem of sixty lines in Middle Welsh, found in the BookofTaliesin. The text recounts an expedition...
Welsh lessons and looking into the mythology of the land (such as Black Bookof Carmarthen, BookofTaliesin, etc.) Plant's first son, Karac, was named...
Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), widely popular in its day, is a central component of the Matter of Britain...
and Taliesin as found in collections such as the BookofTaliesin, the Black Bookof Carmarthen, the Hendregadredd Manuscript or The Red Bookof Hergest...
Battle of Gwen Ystrad), is a late Old Welsh or Middle Welsh heroic poem found uniquely in the BookofTaliesin, where it forms part of the Canu Taliesin, a...
Hiberno-Latin poet and writer Taliesin (c. 534 – c. 599), whose work has survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the BookofTaliesin. 544 – Arator declaims his...
the languages diverged. Both the works of Aneirin (Canu Aneirin, c. 600) and the BookofTaliesin (Canu Taliesin) were written during this era. Middle...
standard text of 'Cad Goddeu' in the BookofTaliesin makes no mention of this, but the Welsh Triads records the Battle of Goddeu as one of the "Three Futile...
from the BookofTaliesin, CMCS, 2007, p. 137 Gruffydd, William John, Rhiannon: An Inquiry Into the Origin of the First and Third Branches of the Mabinogi...
only said of him that Mabon son of Modron is his servant. He is also memorialised with "The Death-song of Uther Pen" from the BookofTaliesin. The latter...
Four Ancient Books of Wales (Google), vol. 2, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas Triads re Arthur p. 457-,Canu y Meirch (BookofTaliesin XXV) p. 175-7 (text)...
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