The Norfolk tribe of the Iceni, was another civilization branch of the Celtics. Their warrior Queen, Boudica or Boudicca, was a strong, large framed, and harsh voiced woman with bright, flowing red hair down to her knees. It was known that she would wear a twisted gold necklet, starting the fashion of large, heavy gold necklets throughout the Celtic land. These gold necklets were similar to the torques (torcs) worn by Gauls, Germans, and Britons. A torque is a collar, necklace, or armband made out of twisted metal.

But art wasn’t the same throughout the years of the Celtic rule; it changed and morphed just like ours did. Around 700 BCE there were Compass-drawn decorations, composition

“And this race of men from the plains were all the harder, for hard land had born them; built on stronger and firmer bones, and endowed with mighty sinew, they were a race undaunted by heat or cold, plague, strange new foodstuffs. For many years, among the beasts of the earth they led their life. And none was yet a driver of the curved plow, none yet could turn the soil with iron blade, nor bury a new shoot in the ground nor prune the ripened branch from the tree.”

This is a Claddagh ring, representing friendship, loyalty, and love. The picture is from website 8.

There is a very interesting story of how Taliesin got his name. Originally his name was Gwion Bach, one day Gwion entered the realm of the Goddess Cerridwen who lived by a lake. For one year and one day Gwion was made to stir a cauldron for Cerridwen while she collected herbs to make a special potion to give whoever drank it all knowledge and wisdom. When there were only three drops of water left in the bottom of the cauldron they flew out of the cauldron and burned Gwion’s finger. Instinctively Gwion stuck his finger in his mouth and sucked on it, because the potion was made to give the recipient all knowledge Gwion knew of the evil power of Cerridwen. When he learnt of this evil power he fled from the lake in utter terror. Cerridwen chased him and during this chase Cerridwen and Gwion performed many acts of shape-shifting to avoid and sneak up upon each other.

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