Taliesin

(550 fl.)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Taliesin DNB: Taliesin (fl. 6th cent.), poet LBT ID: Talie550 VIAF ID: 94061512 LOC ID: n85120077
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Ancient British poet recorded in the in the Historia Brittonum; the Book of Taliesin survives in a fourteenth-century manuscript.
REFERENCES TO Taliesin: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “The Reader. Life of Lord Byron. By John Galt” in The Tatler 1 (4 September 1830) 3-4 Found 1: ¶ 10 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1803-04 Found 1: ¶ 12