Note 31 — Chapter VII · Triumphs of the Water-world
Reading edition
This comes from the late series of Triads, iii. 10, where Merlin’s nine companions are called naw beirđ cylfeirđ: cylfeirđ should be the plural of cylfarđ, which must be the same word as the Irish culbard, name of one of the bardic grades in Ireland. ↑