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In consequence of this, the men of the Island of the Mighty obtained such success as they had; but they were not victorious, for only seven men of them all escaped, and Bendigeid Vran himself was wounded in the foot with a poisoned dart. Now the men that escaped were Pryderi, Manawyddan, Taliesin, and four others. And Bendigeid Vran commanded them that they should cut off his head.
They were walking now across the beach, at the edge of the surf. "It reminds me of something I read out to uncle last night. It was out of one of his old Welsh poets Taliesin, or Davydd ap Gwilym, or somebody. It was about the moon, but indeed I don't know if I can put it into English." "Try," said Cardo. "'She comes from out the fold And leads her starry flock among the fields of night."
Talk of the age of poetry having passed away, when three-score and ten bards can be seen at one time in a little Welsh town! These men of genius were headed by Bard Alaw, whose unpoetical name, I almost hesitate to write it, was Williams, Taliesin Williams, the Welsh given name alone redeeming it from obscurity.
Therefore I, Taliesin, Chief of the bards of the west, Will loosen Elphin Out of a golden fetter." Then he sang to them a riddle: "Discover thou what is The strong creature from before the flood, Without flesh, without bone, Without vein, without blood, Without head, without feet; It will neither be older nor younger Than at the beginning.
T.W. Rollestone's Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race. The poem appeares in the Hanes Taliesin, in Lady Guest's Mabinogion. Now, what would common sense have to say about things like that? Simply, I think, that they are echoes that came down in Wales through the ages, of a teaching that once was known.
But when he came he could do no other than play "Blerwm!" on his lips; and when he sent for the others of the four and twenty bards, they all did likewise, and could do no other. And Maelgan asked the boy Taliesin what was his errand, and he answered him in song: "Elphin, the son of Gwyddno, Is in the land of Artro, Secured by thirteen locks, For praising his instructor.
Urien, his father, was prince of Rheged, a district comprising the present Cumberland and part of the adjacent country. His valor, and the consideration in which he was held, are a frequent theme of Bardic song, and form the subject of several very spirited odes by Taliesin.
"But one of your great bards did," said I. "He must have belonged to the Church, and not to the chapel then," said the woman. "No person who went to chapel would have used such bad words." "He lived," said I, "before people were separated into those of the Church and the chapel; did you ever hear of Taliesin Ben Beirdd?" "I never did," said the woman.
And Taliesin showed his mistress how that Elphin was in prison because of them; but he bade her be glad, for that he would go to Maelgan's court to free his master. So he took leave of his mistress, and came to the court of Maelgan, who was going to sit in his hall, and dine in his royal state, as it was the custom in those days for kings and princes to do at every chief feast.
Thrice have I been born; I know how one has to meditate. Myth. d. The story of Taliesin closely harmonizes with that of Hermes in the Smaragdine tablet. Nork makes some interesting observations, which besides the nature myth interpretation, contains also an allusion to the idea of spiritual regeneration. I have already mentioned that the uterus symbol is frequently the body cavity of a monster.
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