Mythology, Celtic -- Wales; Tales -- Wales; Welsh literature -- 1100-1400 -- Translations into English
{77b} Cethtrwm.
{78a} Gweirdathar Wenidawc.
{78b} Canhwch.
{78c} Arwy.
{81a} "We all of us will come there," said Kai.
{81b} This dialogue consists of a series of repartees, with a play upon
words which it is impossible to follow in the translation.
{82} "Oh man, since the sea does not allow a beautiful dead man in it,
show me that dead body." "Oh woman, the one to whom the dead body
belongs thou wilt see here this evening."
{84a} "I promise all this, and will obtain it," said he.
{84b} "Where are my bad servants and my knaves?"
{85a} Knee-pan.
{87} The two oxen of Gwlwlwyd Wineu.
{89} The harp of Teirtu to console me that night.
{92} Garselit Wyddel.
{93} Moro Oerveddawc.
{98a} And what he and his companions with him did was this--they crossed
the three wards until he was within the fortress.
{98b} Glini.
{99a} Glini.
{99b} Add "some of."
{100} There was but one horn on each side of my head, and there were no
trees here except one oak sapling.
{102} And they proceeded until they came to the wall opposite to where
the prisoner was, where they heard lamentations and groaning on the other
side of the wall.
{103} And it was piteous to hear them. And he hastened to the place.
{105} Dyvnarth.
{108a} Hosts of Ireland.
{108b} And when all the hosts had fled, Arthur and his men went to their
ship in their sight, carrying with them the cauldron full of Irish money.
{108c} Llwyddeu.
{109} And he only killed one of his young pigs.
{110} Add "same night Arthur."
{111a} Aber Tywi.
{111b} Kynlas.
{111c} And ever since they had crossed the Irish Sea, he had not
appeared to them until then.
{112a} And there was killed a young boar from among his pigs.
{112b} And there was killed a young boar and a young sow.
{114} But she turned again upon Kacmwri; she beat both men soundly,
disarmed them, and drove them out.
{116} Maxen Wledig was an emperor at Rome. And the comeliest man was
he, and the wisest, and the one that was most fit to be an emperor, of
all that had been before him.
{117} Not for the delight of hunting went the emperor so far as that,
but to make himself such a man that he would be lord over those kings.
{118a} Valleys he saw, and precipices, and wondrous high rocks, and a
rugged, waterless land.
{118b} Barren.
{119} Sparkling jewels laboriously wrought.
{120} There was no joint of his bones, or cavity of his nails, not to
speak of anything larger than these, that was not full of the maiden's
love.
{122} Waterless.
{124} Helen of the Legions.
{125} Legions.
{126a} Over the wall into the city.
{126b} That it was not for me that thy brothers conquered the city.
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