A well-known story from Lady Charlotte Guest's famous translation of
The Mabinogion. This is
sometimes called the "Hanes Taliesin".
This "Romance" can be found in many places on the web. I have
published yet another copy here to add something Welsh to this
site - most of
the other content (ballads and songs) are either Scottish or
English in origin.
(Note - the two footnotes in Lady Charlotte Guest's original are both marked "1", as they are on separate pages. Clearly this will not work here, so I've had to mark the second footnote as "2").
For those who would like to read Lady Charlotte Guest's The Mabinogion in it's entirety, a
Project Gutenberg eBook is
available and can be found at www.gutenberg.org/etext/5160
(although this does not contain the extensive notes appended to the
paper edition of the book).
