Legendary Poems from the Book of Taliesin

Edited and translated by Marged Haycock

Published by: Gwasg Dinefwr, Aberystwyth, CMCS, 2007. Hardback, Price £36.99

Copies can be obtained direct until the end of 2007 for £25 including postage. Send your name and address plus a cheque for £25 (payable to 'CMCS') to:
CMCS, Adran y Gymraeg, Yr Hen Goleg, Aberystwyth, SY23 2AX.

Review by Kestrel

This is a very important book. It is the first attempt by a modern Celtic scholar to bring together significant and fully annotated translations of 26 of the poems from the Book of Taliesin including those that are of great importance to anyone who has an interest in Celtic mythology. Previously we have only had the unreliable nineteenth century translations of Skene and Davis, the highly imaginative but erroneous work of Gwenogvryn Evans and the translations of the Matthews whose accuracy has been widely challenged. The alternative has been to search out articles and translations in often obscure and difficult-to-find publications, which are not always written in English.

Marged Haycock took a sabbatical from her job at University of Wales in Aberystwyth to put together all her previous work on the subject, together with much new material, in one volume with English translations, for which she should receive much praise!

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