{22d} Tanad is the name of a river in Montgomeryshire, which emptieth itself into the Severn. {22e} Nudd Hael, or the Generous, was a nobleman of North Britain remarkable for his liberality. {22f} Huail was a brother of Gildas, the son of Caw, and a noted warrior. His brother Gildas was the author of the Epistle De excidio Britanniæ. {22g} Rhydderch Hael, or the Generous, was another nobleman of the North, noted for his liberality. {23a} Rhun, the son of Maelgwn Gwynedd king of Britain, a great warrior. {23b} As an hand, &c., i.e. I am as necessary to him as one of those members to the body, to celebrate his martial feats. {23c} Gwriad is the name of a hero mentioned in the Gododin. {23d} Hunydd, the name of a woman, probably the prince’s mistress. The Bards had no great affection for Joan the princess, daughter of king John, because she was an Englishwoman, and not faithful to the prince’s bed. {23e} Arvon, the county of Carnarvon, so called, because situated opposite to Môn, or Anglesea. Arvon, literally Supra Monam, from the particle Ar, super, and Môn, Mona. {25a} Owain Gwynedd, prince of North Wales, was descended in a direct line from Roderic the Great, prince of all Wales, who divided his principality amongst his three sons. {25b} Iwerddon, the British name of Ireland, hence the Hibernia of the Latins, and Ἱέρνη and Ἱθέρνια of the Greeks, probably called from the British Y Werdd Ynys, i.e. the Green Island. {25c} Lochlynians, the Danes, so called from the Baltic, which our ancestors called Llychlyn. Llychlyn is the name of Denmark and Norway, and all those northern regions mentioned in the works of our bards. {25d} Normans. Moses Williams, in his notes on the Æræ Cambro Brittanicæ, gives the following account of this battle. “Normanni, qui in hoc loco Frainc appellantur, erant copiæ quas Henricus Secundus in Monam misit A.D. MCLVII. duce Madoco filio Maredudii Powisiæ principe. Hi ecclesias SS. Mariæ et Petri (ut annales nostri referunt) spoliavere. Istæ vero ecclesiæ in orientali Monæ plaga sunt, unde liquet locum Tal Moelvre dictum alicubi in Mona esse, fortasse etiam haud procul ab ecclesiis praedictis: omnes vero qui navibus egrediebantur a Monæ incolis interfecti sunt.” Vide Annales a Powelo editos, p. 206, 207. It seems by Gwalchmai’s poem to have been a very large fleet, which came partly from Ireland, partly from the Baltic, and the rest from Normandy, to invade the principality. It is plain that its forces were numerous, as they came from so many countries; but it seems they met with a very warm reception from the prince and his sons, and that they were glad to sail away as soon as possible.