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Taliesin

  • fl. 6th century
  • Welsh poets
  • (agents)
renowned British poet, known both as a historical poet at the court of Urien and other rulers and as a more fictionalised persona of supreme status. Poems attributed to him survive in the 14th-century manuscript now known as the Book of Taliesin (NLW Peniarth 2).


See also: Urien
Urien
(fl. c.560–c.580)
Ruler of Rheged, son of Cynfarch and identified in genealogies as a descendant of Coel Hen.

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Charles-Edwards, T. M., “Taliesin (fl. 6th cent.)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26952>.
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