A sword will destroy the swordsman's horse;

40 His host will not break me to theft,

The native country of a slave is not free to him,

They will perforate the fronts of shields before the fronts

of horses.

From his steed of tumult, Morial shall appear before the

host

Fiercely impassioned. They shall pledge the rich plains
From Caer Clud to Caer Caradawg,

The support of the land of Penprys and Gwallawg,
The king of the kings of tranquil aspect.

I.

POEMS RELATING TO URIEN REGED.

XXXVII.

RED BOOK OF HERGEST XVII.

Text, vol. ii. p. 291. Notes, vol. ii. p. 448.

HAVE freely greeted, I will freely greet, the familiar greeter of

Urien Reged. May he diffuse his joy abroad!

Gold and silver, how great their consumption and

destruction.

(Even) before they could come between the hands of the

scatterer!

Ieuav caused loss and sorrow for horses daily;

Ceneu his brother, dilatory in the conflict, was not skilful; Urien made retaliation for the dishonour

Of Cynin the active, ignominious was their execution.

About Aerven, an uncovered precipice, there will come an

army.

10 Selev has been captured; he was incensed for what was

to come.

It will fare worse with the free and the bond on their

account.

Blades will be reddened, through proud words for the fruit of their trees.

The four men will maintain the place of four hundred,
With the deepest water. I would bless the corrupt in the
enclosure on their account;

And whoever obtains it, may he be blessed for ever!
There will befall a loss from confiding in the claimant ;

And hands without thumbs, and blades on the flesh, and a

poor muster.

Puerile age will not be harmonious in the distraction.

There will be no fellowship, nor confidence in any toward

others.

20 A dragon from Gwynedd of precipitous lands and gentle towns,

To the Lloegrians will go, when the report of him will

spread abroad.

Stonework will be broken, with terrible destruction, in the

encounter ;

And more will be lost than spared of the Gwyndodians. From mutual counselling, there will be means of deliverance by sea and land.

There will arise from concealment a man that will be a

blessing to the Gwyndodians;

And the Brythyon, though a remnant, will be victorious over the ungentle multitude.

There will come a time when song will not be cherished, nor will it be elaborate;

The ruler will love wealth, and one sister will be bearish

to another.

Killing and drowning from Eleri as far as Chwilvynydd, 30 A conquering and unmerciful one will triumph;

Small will be his army in returning from the (action of)
Wednesday.

A bear from the south, will arise, meet

The Lloegrians, and kill vast numbers of Powysians.

The affair of Cors Vochno, he that will escape from it will

be fortunate;

There will be twelve women, and no wonder, for one man.
The age of youth will fare unbecomingly worse;
After the tumultuous extermination, a bearded man in a

hundred will not be a warrior.

Urien of Reged, generous he is, and will be,

And has been since Adam.

40 He, proud in the hall, has the most wide-spreading sword Among the thirteen kings of the North.

Do I know his name-Aneurin the poet with the flowing

song,

I being Taliesin, from the borders of the lake of Geirionnydd?
May I not, when old,

Support my sore necessity,
If I praise not Urien. Amen.

XXXVIII.

BOOK OF TALIESSIN XXXI.

Text, vol. ii. p. 183. Notes, vol. ii. p. 412.

HE men of Catraeth arose with the dawn,
About the Guledig, of work a profitable merchant.
This Urien, without mockery is his regret.

He sustains the sovereignty and its demands.
Warlike, the grandeur of a perfect prince of baptism.
The men of Prydain hurtful in battle array,

At Gwenystrad, continuously offerers of battle.
Protected neither the field nor woods

The people with shelter, when tribulation comes.
10 Like the wave loud roaring over the beach,
I saw valiant men in battle array,

And after the morning, battle-mangled flesh.
I saw a tumult of three limits slain,

A shout active in front was heard.

In defending Gwenystrad was seen

A mound and slanting ground obstructing.
In the pass of the ford I saw men gory-tinted,
Dropping their arms before the pallid miserable ones.
They join in peace as they were losers.

20 Hand on the cross they wail on the gravel bank of

Garanwynyon.

The tribes revel over the rising wave.

The billows protect the hair of their captures.
I saw men of splendid progress

With blood that clotted on the garments,

Toiling energetically and incessantly in battle.

The covering battle, where there was no flight, when
contrived.

The ruler of Reged, I am astonished at what was dared.
I saw a brow covered with rage on Urien,

When he furiously attacked his foes at the white stone 30 Of Galystem. His rage was a blade;

The bucklered men were sustained in need.
May a desire of battle come on Eurwyn.

And until I fail in old age,

In the sore necessity of death,
May I not be smiling,

If I praise not Urien.

XXXIX.

BOOK OF TALIESSIN XXXII.

Text, vol. ii. p. 184. Notes, vol. ii. p. 412.

RIEN of the cultivated plain,

The most generous man of baptism,
Abundance has been given

To the men of earth.

As it has been gathered,

It has been scattered.

Joyful the bards of baptism

Whilst thy life continues.

There is greater joy

10 For the high-famed, and liberal of praise.