Taliesin

manuscript

Taliesin ( , ; 6th century AD) was an early Brittonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin. Taliesin was a renowned bard who is believed to have sung at the courts of at least three kings. Taliesin means "shining brow" in Welsh.

thumb|The River Eden, Cumbria|Eden Valley is thought by some to have been the heartland of the kingdom of Rheged. Rheged () was one of the kingdoms of the ('Old North'), the Brittonic-speaking region of what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, during the post-Roman era and Early Middle Ages. It is recorded in several poetic and bardic sources, although its borders are not described in any of them. Archaeological work from 2012 onwards on a site in Galloway in Scotland is interpreted by the excavators as showing that it is a royal centre of Rheged. Rheged possibly extended into Lanca

noblewoman; Welsh translator and business woman (1812-1895)

Annwn (), or Annwfn (), is the Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn (or, in Arthurian literature, by Gwyn ap Nudd), it is a world of delights and eternal youth where disease is absent and food is ever-abundant.

Welsh tale

British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings (1886–1945)

medieval Welsh manuscript

6th-century king of Rheged

literary work by Geoffrey of Monmouth

medieval Welsh poem

10th-century Welsh prophetic poem

King of Powys, Wales

legendary figure

King of Powys

legendary tale in medieval Welsh literature

character in Welsh mythology

collection of four Middle Welsh texts and their English translations: The Black Book of Carmarthen; The Book of Taliesin; The Book of Aneirin; The Red Book of Hergest

myth