Sacred Texts  Legends/Sagas  Celtic  Barddas  Index  Previous  Next 
Buy this Book at Amazon.com


The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg, Vol. I., ed. by J. Williams Ab Ithel, [1862], at sacred-texts.com

THE GORSEDD PRAYER.

The Gorsedd Prayer, called the Prayer of the Gwyddoniaid.

God, impart Thy strength;
And in strength, power to suffer;
And to suffer for the truth;
And in the truth, all light;
And in light, all gwynvyd;
And in gwynvyd, love;
And in love, God;
And in God, all goodness.
                And thus it ends.
        From the Great Book of Margam.

 

The Gorsedd Prayer, from the Book of Trahaiarn the Great Poet. 1

Grant, God, Thy protection;
And in protection, reason;
And in reason, light;

p. 362 p. 363

And in light, truth;
And in truth, justice;
And in justice, love;
And in love, the love of God;
And in the love of God, all gwynvyd.
                    God and all goodness. 1

The Gorsedd Prayer, from another Book.

Grant, O God, Thy protection;
And in protection, strength;
And in strength, understanding;
And in understanding, knowledge;
And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice;
And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it;
And in that love, the love of all existences;
And in the love of all existences, the love of God.
                               God and all goodness.

Talhaiarn's 2 Prayer, called by some, the Gorsedd Prayer.

God, impart strength;
And in that strength, reason;
And in reason, knowledge;
And in knowledge, justice;
And in justice the love of it;
And in that love, the love of every thing;
And in the love of every thing, the love of God.
     Composed by Talhaiarn, the father of Tanwyn.

p. 364 p. 365

Talhaiarn's Prayer, or the Gorsedd Prayer.

God, Thy protection;
And in protection, strength;
And in strength, reason;
And in reason, knowledge;
And in knowledge, truth;
And in truth, justice;
And in justice, love;
And in love, the love of God;
And in the love of God, the love of
  every animation and existence.

Talhaiarn's Prayer.

God, Thy protection;
And in protection, strength;
And in strength, reason;
And in reason, justice;
And in justice, love;
And in love, the love of God;
And in the love of God, the love
  of every living thing.

Footnotes

361:1 p. 360 Trahaiarn Brydydd Mawr, or the Great Poet, flourished from about 1290 to 1350. He presided at the Glamorgan Gorsedd in 1300. Two of his poems are printed in the Myvyrian Archaiology. He is also supposed to have been the same person as the one who distinguished himself under the assumed name of Casnodyn, which is subscribed to five other poems in the same collection.--Williams' Eminent Welshmen.

363:1 p. 362 This was the motto of the Glamorgan or Silurian Chair.

363:2 p. 363 See ante, p. 62, note.

Next: The Prediction of Peredur, The Bard of Prydain