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  • TALIESIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), bard as a babe described as ' iesin ei dalcen,' i.e. with a beautiful forehead, who knew everything about the past, about the present, and about the future. This is the Taliesin who sang to Elphin ap Gwyddno and it is his exploits which are chronicled in prose and verse in the tale which is called ' Hanes Taliesin ' (Lady Charlotte Guest, The Mabinogion, iii). He bore no relationship at all to the