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The Celtic myth of Taliesin is one of the most ancient to have survived, and it flourishes to this day. But even though Taliesin has been written and talked about by so many people in the English speaking world, very few know of the original Welsh tradition behind the modern myth. Modern beliefs about the ancient bard can be found all over the internet, but how close are these to the actual Welsh tradition? There is a substantial body of traditional Welsh lore that’s still largely unknown in the English speaking world. A large amount of books published on Taliesin in recent decades still use really bad translations and often repeat modern assumptions about the traditional myth. Reliable editions of Taliesin poetry have only been available for the last 15 years, and even now not many people know about these new translations or the research they have enabled. For the first time in centuries we can be much more confident in our understanding of the original Taliesin Tradition, and we’re able to better grasp what some of these mysterious poems and stories are trying to tell us. If you would like to learn more about the Taliesin Tradition, you can sign up for a free short video course, Taliesin Origins, by clicking on the button. This free course is offered by Dr Gwilym Morus-Baird who completed his studies in 2011 with a dissertation on the bardic tradition of Medieval Wales. He is a musician and storyteller who has worked as a research fellow at the Library of Congress