Martin Romberg wrote an eight-part concerto for saxophone and orchestra called “ The Tale of Taliesin”;

they've added their own punctuation in places. the afterword also talks here of how they've dealt with place names that were mixed in the original, the silent capitalisation of place names etc., the placing of contemporary place names in footnotes having kept older Welsh names (with k amended to c in places,...). and the keeping of some key words awen, annwfn, in Welsh. Years of Deep Purple The Battle Rages On... – Interview with Jon Lord". Keyboards. January 1994. Archived from the original on 17 May 2010 . Retrieved 22 January 2014.Gwion assumes the shape of a fish and jumps into a river; his mother becomes an otter. Gwion turns into a bird; she becomes a hawk and continues her chase. Finally Gwion becomes a single grain of corn. Ceridwen, assuming the form of a hen, eats him. The introduction to Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams's translation of The Book of Taliesin suggests that later Welsh writers came to see Taliesin as a sort of shamanic figure. The poetry ascribed to him in this collection shows how he can not only channel other entities himself (such as the Awen) in these poems, but that the authors of these poems can in turn channel Taliesin as they both create and perform the poems that they ascribe to Taliesin's persona. This creates a collectivist, rather than individualistic, sense of identity; no human is simply one human, humans are part of nature (rather than opposed to it), and all things in the cosmos can ultimately be seen to be connected through the creative spirit of the Awen. One of the greatest poems in the book, “The Battle of the Trees”, sees Taliesin as a warrior poet, and as an eternal omnipresent all-knowing being who creates all of reality. And as its title suggests, it features a battle between trees and shrubs, as well as a bounty of other elements which might or might not be metaphors for other things. It has references to myth and magic and transformation and impossible knowledge, and like a few other poems, hints at the esoterica of medieval cosmology. No one has figured out precisely what the poem means, but it doesn’t matter. It might be better that way. Like many of these poems, it is shrouded in a sense of mystery and irrecoverable truth. It’s incredible, a whimsical, mysterious, puzzling, beautiful, surreal hellscape of imagination at the height of its powers.

First, it is worth noting that them of a battle of the trees can be seen reflected in the Irish story of The Second Battle of Magh Turedh: This text explains how to use a diagram or chart to study the moon and stars and calculate the date of Easter. According to the Welsh Triads, Taliesin had a son, Afaon, who was accounted a great warrior, and who suffered a violent death, probably in Lothian. [14] Taliesin's grave is held in folklore to be near the village of Tre Taliesin near Llangynfelyn [15] called Bedd Taliesin, but this is a Bronze Age burial chamber, and the village of Tre-Taliesin, at the foot of the hill, was actually named after the burial chamber in the 19th century [16] though legend was traced by Edward Lhuyd to the 17th century.Richard Dyer (1999-03-28). "Making 'Star Wars' sing again" (PDF). The Boston Globe. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-01-05 . Retrieved 2009-12-06. So what exactly is the Battle of the Trees? When one examines part of the outcome of the second battle of Magh Turedh--namely that Lugh forces Bres to reveal the secrets of agriculture--and compares that them to the meaning of Amaethon's name--"Divine Farmer"--we may be getting bits of a story varient of the gods vs. titans (or Aesir vs. Vanir, etc.) myth. metalworkers: the word given is fferyll; some see this as the word Fferyllt, who is the classical poet Vergil, whose book Cerridwen reads from when making her potion for awen. Remember that this manuscript was created in Carmarthen, Caerfyrddin in Welsh (caer, ‘fortress’ + Myrddin, or ‘Myrddin’s fortress’). Frightened of Ceridwen's reaction, Gwion flees. The potion has given him the ability to change shape, and he turns himself into a rabbit. Ceridwen in turn becomes a dog.