“Seven scores, seven scores, seven hundreds of saints,
And seven thousands and seven ten scores,
November a number implored,
Though martyrs good they came.”

— Taliesin

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

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Welsh bard 534–599

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