 | The Lords of Battle Image and Reality of the Comitatus in Dark-Age Britain by Stephen S. Evans
Buy used from: £39.99 This book includes an extended discussion of the early British bards and their social environment.
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 | The Heroic Poetry of Dark-Age Britain: An Introduction to Its Dating, Composition, and Use as a Historical Source by Stephen S. Evans
Buy used from: £94.95 Even more detail on the dating of works attributed to Taliesin and Aneirin.
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 | The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry AD550-1350 by Thomas Owen Clancy (Editor)
Buy new: £7.72 / Used from: £4.99 Good discussion and translation of poems attributed to Taliesin and Aneirin.
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 | A Guide to Welsh Literature: v. 1
Buy used from: £114.95 An excellent collection of scholarly articles, and a good place to start your reading.
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 | Aneirin - Y Gododdin (Welsh Classics) by A.O.H. Jarman
Buy new: £14.41 / Used from: £19.96 An excellent edition with Welsh and English on facing pages.
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 | Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain
Buy new: £61.75 / Used from: £88.38 A great compedium of information about the Welsh Triads and their background.
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| Celtic Poets, The: Songs and Tales from Early Ireland and Wales
Buy used from: £19.95 Another excellent general collection.
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 | Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Traditions: CSANA Yearbook 3-4
Buy new: £75.00 / Used from: £119.60 A wonderful collection of scholarly articles.
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 | The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales by Ford
Buy used from: £1.51 An excellent and accessible translation of most of the stories normally included in the Mabinogion . Includes introductions, a glossary of proper names, and an index.
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 | Law of Hywel Dda: Law Texts of Medieval Wales (Welsh Classics)
Some hundreds of years later than the main focus of this list, but still useful for its insights into the medieval Welsh mind.
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 | The Arthur of the Welsh: Arthurian Legend in Mediaeval Welsh Literature (University of Wales Press - Writers of Wales) by Rachel Bromwich
Buy new: £23.74 / Used from: £14.99 A collection of articles, some of which discuss the early poetry.
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 | Tree of Strings: Crann Nan Teud (Harp) by Keith Sanger
Buy used from: £17.84 Later than 6th century, but good to know about.
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| Uraicecht na Riar: Poetic Grades in Early Irish Law
Buy new: £15.20 / Used from: £165.00 Translation of an early text.
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 | The Mabinogion (Oxford World's Classics)
Buy new: £9.08 / Used from: £5.98 An excellent new translation.
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 | Storyteller by G. R. Grove
Buy new: £11.66 / Used from: £12.51 The book I wrote with my research: the adventures of a young man in 6th century Britain who wants to become a bard.
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 | The Shining Company (Sunburst Book) by Rosemary Sutcliff
Buy used from: £1.44 Another fictional view of an early bard
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 | The Legal Triads of Medieval Wales by Sara Elin Roberts
Buy used from: £78.49 Given the interrelationships of the bards and lawyers, this may be pertinent.
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