History of the term Summerland

Summer Lands Summerland:
Perhaps one of our Druid Scholars could share the first known written record of the use of Summer Lands or Summerland as the after life or Astral Worlds?

>> DEATH  AND  THE AFTER-LIFE.
EIGHT EVENING LECTURES ON  THE SUMMER-LAND.
ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS  [1826-1910]
PHONOGRAPHICALLY REPORTED BY ROBERT MOORE

ALSO,  A VOICE FROM JAMES VICTOR WILSON
REVISED AND ENLARGED.  
ROCHESTER, N. Y.   1911 <<

Transcript of Lectures can be downloaded in RDF dorm from here free!


Moon Rising
TDK

Are You a Natural Bard?

No, I am not going to ask how many poems you can recite from memory.

Or what musical instruments you can play.

No, not even how many years of study you have put it.

These questions would be fine for the ancient Irish Bards and Filid.

But I ask if you were a NATURAL BARD.

The test is very simple.

Are you able to achieve the emotional state you desire, in the audience, you chose to effect?

Is this not the true goal of the Bard?

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R: THE O'DALAIGH AMONG ERIN'S ANCIENT SCHOLARS

Eight pages, automatic pfd download link.

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Conspicuously recorded throughout ancient Erin's accounts of her men of learning are the O'Dalaigh; and their fame as literary scholars is heralded widely by the ancient historians of the Gael. Depicted as well in these records is the enduring renown of the O'Dalaigh. Indeed, in times past it must have seemed that the O'Dalaigh were destined to go on as literary scholars through the ages; so consistently did they maintain their exalted reputation not for generations merely but centuries. But conditions in Gaelic Ireland, the cradle of the O'Dalaigh litterateurs, were suddenly and devastatingly changed; and the talents of the men of learning of the Gael were finally trampled to destruction by English laws compelling Ireland's scholarly activities to cease, that the defiant spirit of the Gael might be subdued. From times immemorial Ireland had maintained a highly trained class of professional scholars. Originally, her learned classes appear to have been the pagan filidh, or druids, of the pre-Christian era. These druidical scholars claimed to be masters of all learning natural and preternatural. Their educational system appears to have embraced all the known higher branches of knowledge of their ages: astronomy, nature study, theology and other such subjects. Among the druidical filidh seven standardized grades or degrees of learning were awarded for scholarly accomplishment. Each grade designated the extent of the knowledge mastered by the filidh graduates and the awarded titles of learning ranged from that of the ollamh or master scholar down through six lower standards: the anruth, the cli, the cano, the doss, the mac fuirmid and the f ocloc. Concerning the druidical system of education Professor Eoin MacNeill says: "The druidical plan of education seems to have been: 1-Collegiate 2-Unlimited as to the range of subjects 3-Conducted in the method of graduation" ("Celtic Ireland" note, page 26.) Whether the druidical plan of learning was the mother of our modern university system is still a debated question. Regarding such a relationship Professor MacNeill comments:
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http://www.strandnet.com/daly/pdf/dalyhis2.pdf

R: Help in Writing Correct Bardic Triads

To check for having preferred seven syllables in each verse.


Simply paste any text into the box below and click Calculate Word Count! Default settings count words, syllables, characters, and averages.

http://www.wordcalc.com/

Why we care:

The most ancient of the Cambrian bards taught in
verse, and preserved the records of transactions through
the medium of rhyme and measure. Their verses
consisted of stanzas of three lines, called, Englyn
Milwr, or the Warrior's Triplet, each containing seven
syllables.

Reference:

THE Ancient Laws of Cambria
CONTAINING THE
INSTITUTIONAL TRIADS OF DYVNWAL MOELMUD,
THE LAWS OF HOWEL THE GOOD,
TRIADICAL COMMENTARIES,
CODE OF EDUCATION, AND THE HUNTING LAWS
OF WALES ;
TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
THE HISTORICAL TRIADS OF BRITAIN.
Translated from the Welsh,
By WILLIAM PROBERT (1823)


Also, see:

Druid's Traids or Warriors' triplet

http://lebordruidic.blogspot.com/2017/05/druids-traids-or-warriors-triplet.html

B: Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bar

By Edward Jones (1808)

Can be downloaded free, from books.google.com

A very rich find and very informative work for any student or scholar of the Druidic past.

TDK