7/8/2023 0 Comments Taliesin pendragon cycle![]() ![]() ![]() Taliesin Ben Beirdd (chief of the bards), as Taliesin the poet is also known, is considered one of the most significant Old Welsh bards. ![]() However, historians and literary scholars are careful to keep the two figures separate. The fictive and quasi-fictive literature that uses Taliesin, as either a significant or minor character, often combines these two aspects to varying degrees: he is depicted as both a poet (though rarely in the historically accurate court) and as a seer in possession of magical or seemingly magical powers and knowledge. He is a figure belonging to both history, as an important Old Welsh court poet, and to mythology, as a magician and seer in both Celtic and Arthurian legend. Taliesin "of the shining brow" is a mytho-historical character generally associated with early Wales and North Western Britain in the 6 th century AD. ![]()
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