29. Cadwallo and Urien were bards of whose songs nothing has been preserved. Taliessin (see 121 below) dedicated many poems to the latter, and wrote an elegy on his death: he was slain by treachery in the year 560. 30. _That hush'd the stormy main_. Cf. Shakes. _M. N. D._ ii. 2: "Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song." 33. _Modred_. This name is not found in the lists of the old bards. It may have been borrowed from the Arthurian legends; or, as Mitford suggests, it may refer to "the famous Myrddin ab Morvyn, called Merlyn the Wild, a disciple of Taliessin, the form of the name being changed for the sake of euphony." 34. _Plinlimmon_. One of the loftiest of the Welsh mountains, being 2463 feet in height. It is really a group of mountains, three of which tower high above the others, and on each of these is a _carnedd_, or pile of stones. The highest of the three is further divided into two peaks, and on these, as well as on another prominent part of the same height, are other piles of stones. These five piles, according to the common tradition, mark the graves of slain warriors, and serve as memorials of their exploits; but some believe that they were intended as landmarks or military signals, and that from them the mountain was called _Pump-lumon_ or _Pum-lumon_, "the five beacons"--a name somehow corrupted into _Plinlimmon_. Five rivers take their rise in the recesses of Plinlimmon--the Wye, the Severn, the Rheidol, the Llyfnant, and the Clywedog. 35. _Arvon's shore_. "The shores of Caernarvonshire, opposite the isle of Anglesey" (Gray). _Caernarvon_, or _Caer yn Arvon_, means the camp in Arvon. 38. "Camden and others observe that eagles used annually to build their aerie among the rocks of Snowdon, which from thence (as some think) were named by the Welsh _Craigian-eryri_, or the crags of the eagles. At this day (I am told) the highest point of Snowdon is called _the Eagle's Nest_. That bird is certainly no stranger to this island, as the Scots, and the people of Cumberland, Westmoreland, etc., can testify; it even has built its nest in the peak of Derbyshire [see Willoughby's Ornithology, published by Ray]" (Gray). 40. _Dear as the light_. Cf. Virgil, _Æn._ iv. 31: "O luce magis dilecta sorori." 41. _Dear as the ruddy drops_. Gray quotes Shakes. _J. C._ ii. 1: "As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart." Cf. also Otway, _Venice Preserved_: "Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life, Dear as these eyes that weep in fondness o'er thee." 42. Wakefield quotes Pope: "And greatly falling with a fallen state;" and Dryden: "And couldst not fall but with thy country's fate." 44. _Grisly_. See on _Eton Coll._ 82. Cf. _Lycidas_, 52: "the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie."