Taliesin: The Boy Wizard (White Wolves: Traditional Stories)

by Maggie Pearson

Other authorsDavid Wyatt
Paperback, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

428

Publication

A & C Black Publishers Ltd (2004), Paperback, 96 pages

Description

Gwion drinks from the witch Cardiwen's magic cauldron of knowledge and is reborn as Taliesin- magician, poet, prophet, weathermonger and trickster. Adopted as a baby by Elphin, the unluckiest man in Wales, over the next twelve years Taliesin transforms Elphin's fortunes. The story as told in the Welsh Mabinogion is a succession of mediaeval folk tales which have collected around the figure of Taliesin, who was once as well-known as Merlin.

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Physical description

96 p.; 7.64 inches

ISBN

0713668431 / 9780713668438

Local notes

Gwion drinks from the witch Cardiwen's magic cauldron of knowledge and is reborn as Taliesin: magician, poet, prophet, weathermonger and trickster. Adopted as a baby by Elphin, the unluckiest man in Wales, over the next twelve years Taliesin transforms Elphin's fortunes.

A faithful re-telling of the tale.
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