{97c} Mr. Davies and Dr. Pughe seem to have preferred the expression “_pedryolet_ bennawr,” which they construed into _four pointed helmets_: “pedryollt,” _split into four parts_, would appear, however, to be much more accordant with the descriptive tenor of the passage. {97d} As in the two preceding lines is contained a compliment to military valour, the evident drift of the poem requires that it should be applied to the British party; hence “rac” in this place must be understood to mean that the toiling warriors were _from_ or _of_ the retinue of Mynyddawg rather than from those who confronted him. {97e} Disgraced by the blasphemous taunts and treachery of the enemy. {98a} “Ceugant yw angeu,” (adage.) The line might be rendered,— “Without end they multiplied the wooden biers;” An expression similar to that made use of by Llywarch Hen, in reference to the battle of Llongborth:— “Ac elorawr mwy no maint. And biers innumerable. (Elegy upon Geraint ab Erbin.) “Ceugant,” translated _without end_, is properly a Druidic term, signifying the circle of eternity. “Cylch y ceugant, ac nis gall namyn Duw eu dreiglaw.” The circle of infinitude, none but God can pervade it. (Barddas.) “Tri phren rhydd yn forest y brenhin; pren crib eglwys; a phren peleidyr a elont yn rhaid y brenhin; a _phren elawr_.” (Welsh Laws.) {98b} He is described as of “Baptism” in contradistinction to the infidel Saxons. {98c} A reference to the last unction. See St. James, v. 14. {98d} I.e. Tudvwlch Hir, the hero of this particular stanza. {99a} “Ne.” The statement at line 138 would determine the affirmative character of this word. {99b} “Veinoethyd,” (_meinoethydd_;) not “in the celebration of May Eve,” which is Davies’s rendering, as we clearly infer from the conjunction of the word with “meinddydd,” (confessedly a _serene day_) in Kadeir Taliesin and Gwawd y Lludd Mawr. (See Myv. Arch. v. i. pp. 37, 74.) {99c} “Gynatcan.” Al. “gyvatcan,” (_cyvadgan_) a proverb. “Though his success was proverbial.” {99d} Or, “Through ambition he was a soarer.” The person here commemorated was of an ambitious turn of mind, and bore armorial ensigns of a corresponding character, which were looked upon, in a manner, as prophetic of his successful career as a warrior, but the result of this battle miserably belied such a promise. “Prenial yw i bawb ei drachwres.” The path of glory leads but to the grave.—(Taliesin.) {99e} Where Edinburgh now stands; and which was probably the head quarters of Mynyddawg, (see line 89 note.) In a poem printed in Davies’s Mythology of the Druids, p. 574, and supposed to have been written by Aneurin, Tudvwlch and Cyvwlch are represented as feasting with Mynyddawg. “Gan Vynydawc Bu adveiliawc Eu gwirodau.” Destructive were their wassails with Mynyddawg.