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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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- Taliesin, "Chief of the Bards of the West," may have been an actual historical personage of the sixth century A.D., contemporary with the chieftain who became the "King Arthur" of later romance.†
p. 172.9
- The bard's legend and poems survive in a thirteenth-century manuscript, "The Book of Taliesin," which is one of the "Four Ancient Books of Wales."†
p. 172.9 *
- A mabinog (Welsh) is a bard's apprentice.†
p. 173.1
- Celtic bards went out to the courts of Christian Europe; Celtic themes were rehearsed by the pagan Scandinavian scalds.†
p. 173.6
- The sages of the hermit groves and the wandering mendicants who play a conspicuous role in the life and legends of the East; in myth such figures as the Wandering Jew (despised, unknown, yet with the pearl of great price in his pocket); the tatterdemalion beggar, set upon by dogs; the miraculous mendicant bard whose music stills the heart; or the masquerading god, Zeus, Wotan, Viracocha, Edshu: these are examples.†
p. 205.4
- "A bard," answered Elphin.†
p. 207.2
- And so when the bards and the heralds came to cry largess, and to proclaim the power of the king and his strength, at the moment that they passed by the corner wherein he was crouching, Taliesin pouted out his lips after them, and played "Blerwm, blerwm," with his finger upon his lips.†
p. 207.4
- Primary chief bard am Ito Elphin,
And my original country is the region of the summer stars;
Idno and Heinin called me Merddin,*
At length every king will call me Taliesin.†p. 208.2 - I have been with my Lord in the manger of the ass;
I strengthened Moses through the water of Jordan;
I have been in the firmament with Mary Magdalene;
I have obtained the muse from the cauldron of Caridwen;
I have been bard of the harp to Lleon of Lochlin.†p. 208.9 - The larger portion of the bard's song is devoted to the Imperishable, which lives in him, only a brief stanza to the details of his personal biography.†
p. 209.2
- The stanza of the hero-bard resounds with the magic of the word of power; similarly, the sword edge of the hero-warrior flashes with the energy of the creative Source: before it fall the shells of the Outworn.†
p. 289.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(bard as in: written by the bard) someone who composes and recites or sings poems about important events and people; or (as a proper noun) ShakespeareShakespeare is sometimes called the Bard of Avon or just the Bard.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)