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Barddas
Druidry
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Barddas is the text most often cited as source material for modern Druidry, compiled and published by Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams) in the early nineteenth century as what he presented as ancient Welsh bardic doctrine. Modern Druidry's own account is explicit that Morganwg fabricated the early sources he claimed to be transcribing, so the text is read today as a nineteenth century construction rather than a genuine survival of pre-Christian Druidic teaching. Alongside it, the shorter Druid's Prayer and Druid's Vow serve as more widely used devotional texts.
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Canonical StatusSourced to the subject's own accountModern Druidry's own sources acknowledge Iolo Morganwg fabricated the early material Barddas claims to transcribe; it is used and valued today as a nineteenth century foundational text rather than treated as an authentic ancient survival, hence apocryphal rather than canonical. Status TodaySourced to the subject's own accountLiving tradition, practised today 1 Origins
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