“Am I not with hosts making a din?
I would not cease, between two hosts, without gore.
Am I not he that is called Gorlassar?
My belt was a rainbow to my foe.”

—  Taliesin

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

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Taliesin 102
Welsh bard 534–599

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