title: Bards and Heroes: An Introduction to Old Welsh Poetry
author:  Carl Lofmark 
description: It's not "At Swim-Two-Birds," and that's all ye need to know!
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  THE 
  FOUR ANCIENT 
  BOOKS OF 
  WALES 
  CONTAINING 
  THE CYMRIC POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO THE BARDS OF 
  THE SIXTH CENTURY 
  BY  
  WILLIAM F. SKENE 
   
   
   
   
  EDINBURGH 
  EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS 
  1868 
  
   The Four Ancient Books Of Wales By William F. Skene. 
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  Map of Prydyn or Y Gogled 
   
   
   
  Map Detail 1 
   
  
   
  Map Detail 2 
   
   
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS 
   
  INTRODUCTION 
  I. HISTORICAL POEMS CONTAINING ALLUSIONS TO EVENTS 
  PRIOR TO A.D. 560 
  II. HISTORICAL POEMS CONTAINING ALLUSIONS TO EVENTS 
  SUBSEQUENT TO A.D. 560 
  III. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS FROM THE BLACK BOOK OF 
  CAERMARTHEN 
   
  IV. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS FROM THE BOOK OF ANEURIN 
   
  
  INTRODUCTION 
  CHAPTER I. 
  THE POEMS CONTAINED IN THE FOUR ANCIENT BOOKS OF WALES. 
  THE dissolution of the religious houses in Wales in the reign of Henry the 
  Eighth, and the dispersion of their librar