Who wrote The Book of Taliesin? with Dr Gwilym Morus-Baird
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- The Book of Taliesin is one of the great treasures of Welsh culture, but who wrote it? In truth, it's an impossible question to answer, but there are some very interesting theories about who composed some of the most famous poems in the manuscript . . .
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00:00 Who wrote The Book of Taliesin?
08:17 Prydydd y Moch's Time
21:03 Prydydd y Moch's Poetry
Loving the poetry and welsh language
brilliant as always but, I rely somewhat on the closed captions and I wish that they were more accurate in conveying your words
apologies, it just takes a lot of time to edit the automatic captions, one day I may have the time!
Beautifully explained. Thank you for that.
Croeso.
Pigs, of course, feature numerously in early Welsh prose. Pryderi's seven swine swindled by Gwydion, the Twrch Trwyth and his seven little piglets and the sow who leads Gwydion to Lleu in eagle form at the top of the world tree, spring to mind.
Of course. I think all of these connotations are intended, as well as it being a bit of nick name, not unlike another famous poet of the time Dafydd Benfras: David the Cod!
"the Welsh custom of family infighting."
Laughs in Welsh family with a lot of familial infighting.
Siwmae Dr G.
Lol, hindsight, not as handy as foresight in many situations.
"What a mistaka to makea" prevailing upon Awen, a pure pagan power, partly of inspiration in prose, poetry and prescience. In the name and for the grace of a cargo cult character. Sounds like a recipe for disaster... I got a bad feeling about this...
Had Awen inspired the bard, things may have been different! Still, when you disavow your deities disaster, destruction, desolation, destitution and despair draw daily closer...
Just a bored blokes two Bob's worth.