`In #Celtic myths eating often leads to pregnancy, and so it was with #Ceridwen, who gave birth to #Gwion and set him adrift on the sea. A nobleman, #Elphin, found the baby floating near shore and took him home, raising him tenderly as his own child, calling him #Taliesin, “radiant brow.” Taliesin grew to be the most eloquent poet in the land, one who could see through the veil to the #Otherworld. Like the Irish poets Amairgin and Tuan Mac Cairill, Taliesin spoke of many incarnations, both human and animal.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @NeuKelte
#Celtic #FairytaleTuesday: #Gwion Bach had transformed himself successively into a hare, a fish and a bird. #Ceridwen pursued him as a black hou…
https://twitter.com/NeuKelte/status/1526582564084801536

19 Nov 1652: d. Boetius Egan #Franciscan Bishop of #Elphin #otd - his 1634 chalice & book - John Colgan's Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae - which he presented to the friars (NMI/JMcC).

The book is now kept in
MarshsLibrary #Dublin