“The value of my cry great will be its advantage to degrees.
The chief of men, shield of warriors.
The extensive booty of the ashen shaft is my fair Awen.
A shield before a prince, bright his smile,
Heroic, aspiring, the most heroic is Urien”

—  Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Spoils of Taliesin, a Song to Urien

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