![]() ![]() Taliesin Ben Beirdd (chief of the bards), as Taliesin the poet is also known, is considered one of the most significant Old Welsh bards. However, historians and literary scholars are careful to keep the two figures separate. The fictive and quasi-fictive literature that uses Taliesin, as either a significant or minor character, often combines these two aspects to varying degrees: he is depicted as both a poet (though rarely in the historically accurate court) and as a seer in possession of magical or seemingly magical powers and knowledge. He is a figure belonging to both history, as an important Old Welsh court poet, and to mythology, as a magician and seer in both Celtic and Arthurian legend. ![]() ![]() Taliesin "of the shining brow" is a mytho-historical character generally associated with early Wales and North Western Britain in the 6 th century AD. ![]()
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