[Yet there had been Bards and Bardism before; but they were not completely methodized, and they enjoyed neither privileges nor established customs, but they were obtained through gentleness and civility, and the protection of the country and the nation, before the time of these three.
Some say they were in the time of Prydain, the son of Aedd Mawr, others, that they were in the time of his son, Dyvnwal-Molemud, whom some of the old books call Dyvnvarth, the son of Prydain.
XII. The three elementary masters of Poetry and Memorial, of the Race of the Cymry.
Gwyddon Ganhebon, the first man in the world who composed poetry;
Hu Gadarn, who first adapted poetry to the preservation of records and memorials;
And Tydain Tad Awen, who first developed the art and structure of poetry, and the due disposition of thought.
And, from the labours of these three personages, sprang Bards and Bardism, and the regulation of their privileges and established discipline, by the three primary Bards, Plenvydd, Alwan, and Gwron.
XIII. The three primary baptized (or christian) Bards.
Merddyn Emrys; Taliesin, the chief of the Bards, and Merddin, the son of Madawc Morvyn.
XIV. The three mighty Labours of the Isle of Britain.