The Sleeping Bard - or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell

The Sleeping Bard, by Ellis Wynne
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Title: The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
Author: Ellis Wynne
Release Date: February 20, 2007 Language: English
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SLEEPING BARD***
Transcribed from the 1860 John Murray edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Birmingham Library, England, for the generous provision of the material from which this transcription was made. http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/libraries.bcc.
THE SLEEPING BARD;
OR
Visions of the World, Death, and Hell,
BY
ELIS WYN.
TRANSLATED FROM THE CAMBRIAN BRITISH
BY
GEORGE BORROW,
AUTHOR OF
“THE BIBLE IN SPAIN,” “THE GYPSIES OF SPAIN,” ETC.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1860.
Preface.
The Sleeping Bard was originally written in the Welsh language, and was published about the year 1720. The author of it, Elis Wyn, was a clergyman of the Cambro Anglican Church, and a native of Denbighshire, in which county he passed the greater part of his life, at a place called Y las Ynys. Besides the Sleeping Bard, he wrote and published ...