Grove of the Great Dragon

Llyfr Taliesin

The Book of Taliesin

 

The Book of Taliesin is a small manuscript, missing its covers, and thus the beginning of the first poem; luckily, this poem is also contained in the Red Book of Hergest. It contains 56 mostly-complete poems, and a fifty-seventh poem, of which only remains the words: "Darogan Kat"--thought to be "Darogan Katwaladr."

 

The majority of the translations I am using here are from The Four Ancient Books of Wales, by W. F. Skene, 1858. Unfortunately, they are probably not the most accurate translations, but they are the only ones which, to my knowledge, are public domain. (Even at that I'm not sure, though the book is well out of print.)

I Taliesin's First Address
II The Elegy of the Thousand Sons
III The Fold of the Bards
IV The Pleasant Things of Taliesin
V O God, God of Formation
VI The Great Prophesy of Britain
VII The Hostile Confederacy
VIII The Battle of the Trees
IX Juvenile Ornaments of Taliesin
X Daronwy
XI Song on Lleenawg
XII The Praise of Taliesin
XIII The Chair of Taliesin
XIV Song Before the Sons of Llyr
XV The Chair of the Sovereign
XVI The Chair of Cerridwen
XVII The Song of the Wind
XVIII
XIX Song to Mead
XX The Song to Ale
XXI The Praise of Tenby
XXII The Plagues of Egypt
XXIII The Satire on Cynan
XXIV The Rod of Moses
XXV The Song of the Horses
XXVI The Contrived World
XXVII On the Face of the Earth
XXVIII Alexander the Great
XXIX God the Possessor
XXX The Raid on the Otherworld
XXXI The Battle of Gwenystrad
XXXII A Song for Urien Rheged
XXXIII A Song for Urien Rheged
XXXIV A Song for Urien Rheged
XXXV The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain, song to Urien
XXXVI A Song for Urien Rheged
XXXVII The Spoils of Taliesin, a Song to Urien
XXXVIII
XXXIX The Satisfaction of Urien
XL The Death-song of Erof [Ercwlf]
XLI The Death-song of Madawg
XLII The Death-song of Curroy, Son of Daire
XLIII The Death-song of Dylan, Son of the Wave
XLIV The Death-song of Owain son of Urien
XLV The Death-song of Aeddon Mor
XLVI The Death-song of Cunedda
XLVII The Lesser Prophesy of Britain
XLVIII The Death-song of Uther Pendragon
XLIX
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LI The Eternal Trinity
LII The Praise of Lludd the Great
LIII
LIV The Reconciliation of Lludd the Less
LV The Song to the Great World
LVI The Song to the Little World
LVII

 

 

 

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