Black Book of Carmarthen is the earliest surviving Welsh manuscript . It contains some of the earliest references to Arthur and Merlin . The book was written in Latin, but it has been translated into English by a monk named Thomas de la Mare who lived at St Davids Abbey near Cardiff.
Black Book of Carmarthen is the earliest surviving Welsh manuscript . It contains some of the earliest references to Arthur and Merlin . Believed 'ghost ' images were in the original , but erased by a 16th century owner of the book , probably a man named Jaspar Gryffyth .