Table of Contents Page 1 What is Bard? What is Bard? 3 Lead Sheets 4 Some of the Music Symbols 5 The Mahinogion 7 (A Note on the Galeic) 8 The Songs 9 Bardic ales From the Mahinogian Part I Tales of Olde Dyved 10 Descent Into Annwn 15 Rhiannon of the Birds 21 Child Named Grief 26 Island of the Mighty 35 Caswallons Quarry 39 Came a Storm 45 The Pigs of Pryderi 51 (Part II) Children of Don 55 On the Wind 59 The Dreams of Arianhord 63 A Very Funny Man 67 Lady, My Lady 71 Blodeuwedd 75 The Cauldron and the Goat 77 An Oak Grows 81 Cad Godden (Battle of the Trees) based on the translation by Robert Graves 90 Feasting the Wheel 93The Weel 97 Watch The Wheel Turn (Yule) 101 The King Shall Return (Imbolc) 105 Spring Fling (Vernal Equinox)