It also had much of its poetry reproduced in the Four Ancient Books of Wales, William F Skene's 1868 anthology of dark-age Welsh bardic poetry. The red book also contains historical texts ...

The effective conquest by Rome started in 43 AD. By around 70 AD all of Britain save northern Scotland had fallen under Roman rule. Known as the province of Brittania (probably from a Brittonic word ...

Does its power carry over from Welsh? Probably not. It’s a bit like looking at the black dots of a song on a stave; they need a voice to make them sing. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry ...

One of the exhibits is the 13th Century Book of Aneirin, which includes a 6th Century poem describing a battle ... "Geoffrey claimed as his source an ancient Welsh manuscript which was then ...