Taliesin's Journey Through Dark Age Britain
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- In this second chapter from 'Taliesin Origins', we reconstruct the life of the historical Taliesin, the 6th century bard who became the legend. Only 12 ancient Welsh poems may have survived of his work, and what little we can glean from them suggests that at some point in his career, he decided to journey to The Old North, and the lost kingdom of Rheged.
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Absolutely excellent! Well done
thank you
I feel like this is the video I've been waiting for since I first became interested in this topic. Bravo!
thanks!
That was really great! Thank you sir!
my pleasure
Love the maps as it brings the land into the visual.
I love maps too :)
I absolutely love these. Even in translation, holy smokes when I heard that elegy I got chills.
It is a classic
Great presentation. Very complex history. Talk about stress and pressure!
indeed!
Thank you. Happy Christmas 🎄
you're welcome, you too
Fascinating!
I think so too!
So much to learn, thoroughly enjoyed
good to hear
wonderful, thank you.
you're welcome
Your videos flow like poetry.
thank you!
Perhaps the descriptive parts of the names were referring to the intellect of the men? We say today that someone has a mind like a steel trap= Iron Brow, and that someone is very bright= Shining Brow. Just a thought!
maybe so
This is fascinating. The the way the music and words spread was what amounted to popular media back in the day, absent printing and broadcasting. This is about "the music business" in those days; Bards, poets, performers, all trying to get gigs in the propaganda systems of the local despots.
pretty much, it's only the technology that's changed
Just reading about a Welsh bard named Haneurin (Honorinus) that was at The Battle of Raith (Kirkcaldy). 596 A.D.
I think that's an old theory that we've moved on from by today, Aneirin was at Catraeth
Really interesting account of Taliesin's journey to Yr Hen Ogledd. I live near the altar to the Mothers at St John's Church at Lund near Preston and have visited it and love that it is still used as a baptismal font evidencing the continuity of the Mothers overlooking baptisms since the Romano-British period. I have a strange feeling I've seen an earlier version of this.
Yes, it's a revised version of earlier stuff
Where do you think he crossed the Ribble? There were a couple of crossings - one at Middleforth (Middle Ford) where there was later a ferryman and one closer to the estuary (the last I think) near Penwortham Hill where an earlier version of St Mary's Church might have stood (a Marian and maybe another Mother's site related to Lund).
Sounds like your guess is as good as (if not better) than mine!
At 18:17 you describe the chief of retinue as something like "Pentaile"...?
What's that word? Where does it come from? Thanks
Prominent tail.
Penteulu; pen = chief; teulu = retinue / household
Ardderchog Gwilym, wedi mwynhau hwn. Mwy ynda!
croeso, oes mwy i ddod, am y tro o leiaf
All this talk of brows makes sense to me if you think about early monks having a celtic tonsure. Hair cut ear to ear unlike the later roman tonsure as a circle to the rear of the head.
I have always felt this is why druids were instantly recognisable as it wouls stand out making good sense that it survived in Ireland and came back to post Roman Wales.
it certainly points to prominent foreheads associated with spiritual authority
Gret,llawer gwell na ysgol
wel diolch byth!
The rather prosaic suggestion that the poet skulked off during Urien's decline fails to convey that their coming and going would have been integral to their mystique, intentional or otherwise 😅
The other side of that coin is the name (or title) of Merlin, like melyn, the colour yellow, and Merlin is famed for fleeing the scene of a battle into the wild wood, to re-emerge later on, when the situation had calmed down, riding a stag (very macho). So it would seem that playful self deprication may not have been outside of their remit or wheelhouse, and so, well said.
as a reconstructed story, we can only guess, and Merlin is the Anglo-Norman borrowing of the Welsh Myrddin by the way
Arbennig.. Diolch am rani..
Rhani
croeso
Difyr iawn. Diolch iti am dy waith.
croeso mawr
Your channel is grand, but ugh!! Don't say "Common Era" please!!
why not? It is the common era for all aspects of culture outside of Christianity, right?
@CelticSource Era of what for whom?
I’m from the Weald. The last place to be Christianised on the British isles.
really?
Diolch am draethawd mor arbennig o dda. Wedi mwynhau yn llwyr.
croeso, da clywed eich bod wedi mwynhau