“To my deprivation, to my sorrow, sinew was brave.
The world would not be if not for my offspring.
I am a bard to be praised. The unskilful
May he be possessed by the ravens and eagle and bird of wrath.”

—  Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Death-song of Uther Pendragon

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