Three counselling knights were in the court of Arthur, which were Cynon the son of Clydno Eiddin, Aron the son of Kynfarch ap Meirchion-gul, and Llywarch hen the son of Elidir Lydanwyn, &c.--_Note in LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST'S edition of the Mabinogion_, vol. i. p. 93. In the text, for the sake of euphony to English ears, for the name of Llywarch is substituted that of his father, Elidir. 2.--Page 275, stanza xii. _Next came the Warrior Three. Of glory's charms._ Three knights of battle were in the court of Arthur; Cadwr the Earl of Cornwall, Lancelot du Lac, and Owaine the son of Urien Rheged; and this was their characteristic, that they would not retreat from battle, neither for spear, nor for arrow, nor for sword; and Arthur never had shame in battle the day he saw their faces there, &c.--LADY C. GUEST'S _Mabinog._, vol. i. p. 91. In the poem, for Lancelot of the Lake, whose fame is not yet supposed to be matured, is substituted the famous Geraint, the hero of a former generation. 3.--Page 275, stanza xii. _Dark Mona's Owaine shines with golden arms._ Owaine's birth-place and domains are variously surmised: in the text they are ascribed to Mona (Anglesea). St. Palaye, concurrently both with French fabliasts and Welch bards, makes this hero very fond of the pomp and blazonry of arms, and attributes to him the introduction of buckles to spurs, furred mantles, and the use of gloves. 4.--Page 275, stanza xiii. _In his plain manhood Cornwall's chief is seen._ Cadwr. 5.--Page 275, stanza xv. _Next the three Chiefs of Eloquence; the kings._ There were three golden-tongued knights in the court of Arthur--Gwalchmai (Gawaine), Drudwas, and Eliwlod.[D]--LADY C. GUEST'S _Mabinog._, note, vol. i. p. 118. 6.--Page 276, stanza xix. "_The KNIGHTS OF LOVE;" some type the name conveys._ The three ardent lovers of the island of Britain--Caswallawn, Tristan, and Cynon (for the last, already placed amongst the counselling knights, Caradoc is substituted).--LADY C. GUEST'S _Mabinog._, vol. i. note to p. 94. 7.--Page 276, stanza xix. _Caswallawn; Trystan of the lion rock._ Trystan's birth-place, Lyonness, is supposed to have been that part of Cornwall since destroyed by the sea. See Southey's note to _Morte d'Arthur_, vol. ii. p. 477. 8.--Page 279, stanza xlv. _In Castel d'Asso's vale of hero-tombs._ Castel d'Asso (the Castellum Axia, in Cicero), the name now given to the valleys near Viterbo, which formed the great burial-place of the Etrurians. Near these valleys, and, as some suppose, on the site of Viterbo, was Voltumna (Fanum Voltumnae), at which the twelve sovereigns of the twelve dynasties, and the other chiefs of the Etrurians, met in the spring of every year. Views of the rock-temples at Norchea, in this neighbourhood, are to be seen in INGHIRAMI'S _Etrusc. Antiq._ 9.--Page 280, stanza xlvii.