“The number of saints, a synod without desire,
From God the divine prophesy.
In every tongue they compose,
About the earth they were,
And so many wisely prophesied
Christ, and before he was, they were.”

—  Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Elegy of the Thousand Sons

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