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The Doom of Colyn Dolphyn: A Poem; With Notes Illustrative of Various Traditions of Glamorganshire (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Williams, Taliesin

 
9781334361050: The Doom of Colyn Dolphyn: A Poem; With Notes Illustrative of Various Traditions of Glamorganshire (Classic Reprint)

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The subjects that occupy the first Canto of this Poem, were selected for the purposes of elucidating Ancient British Mythologies, and introducing to public notice, the superstitions that have prevailed in the Principality of Wales. Such topics may not, by some, be deemed worthy of consideration; but the testimonies of most learned writers concur in asserting that the credulities, ceremonies, and rites of nations, present strong evidences of their comparative progression in the arts and sciences of social order, and of literature. Wales, so fertile in her records, and oral remains of ancient usages, has, hitherto, been almost entirely neglected by her Saxon neighbours; nor have her own sons rallied, in the best ardour of nationality, under the mouldering banner of her ancient lore. However defective this little publication, now presented, with unfeigned diffidence, to notice, may be justly deemed, a cherished hope brightens to my view that it will stimulate abler pens to investigate the Legends and Ancient History of the land of my Fathers. The scene of the second Canto, opens on the shore, a short distance westward of St.
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