Around 1460 CE, a Welsh poet, Gwilym Tew, framed a cryptic catalogue of 'Treasures', objects allocated to lesser-known historical figures of Prydein, the place-name applied where the Brittonic language had been spoken long-term - now Wales, Cornwall, and the Old North i.e., Central and Southern Scotland and North England. A dramatic invention had Taliesin choose the Treasures and Merlin collect them.

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A closer look at Taliesin's interest in Ireland where in several works, his themes are the 'fairy-fortress' Caer Sidi (Shee), its place in the Otherworld, and the astronomy and cosmology of his time. Chief among the Welsh Bards of the 6th Century CE, he makes explicit reference corresponding to ancient Irish tales in Preiddeu Annwn, Plunder/Spoils of the Otherworld.