“I am old. I am young. I am Gwion,
I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.”

—  Taliesin

A tradition about Taliesin states that he was once a boy named "Gwion".
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin

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