Who will pay the precious reward?
Is it Maelgwn from Mona?

Or shall it come from Aeron?

Or Coel or Canawon?

Or Gwrweddw or his sons?

30 His enemies shall not exult
From the hostages of Ynyr.
To him will resort the minstrels,
The star of magnificent stars,

Have I not disarmed the mystery?

In Mordei Uffin,

In the seas of Gododin,

He is a sharer of varied words,
The raven of the morning divining.
I am an aged exile,

40 I am of joyful talents,

And the stroke of malice.
Mine, the praising of Urien,
Of splendid purity of life.
Very keen his conduct of hosts,
The ruddy-reaping of the steep.
Ruddyn formed them,

At the battle in Harddnenwys,

It was Ynyr that broke them to pieces.

A hundred festivals holding

50 A hundred friends he defended.

I saw mighty men,

Who hastened to the shout of war;

I saw blood on the ground

From the assault of swords.

They tinged with blue the wings of the dawn;
They threw off the spears.

Three hundred festivals complete of the renowned

Ynyr, on the earth indeed there will be redness.

M.

POEMS RELATING TO CADWALLAWN.

LVI.

BOOK OF TALIESSIN XLIX.

Text, vol. ii. p. 204. Notes, vol. ii. p. 420.

A BRIGHT festivity

About the two lakes,

The lake on my side.

The side about the Caer,
The Caer in urgency

Has been described.

A comely flight from it;
And the legion of the band
Augmented stones.

10 The dragon will flow around,

Above the places,

Vessels of liquor,

Liquor in golden horns,

Golden horns in hand,

Hand on the knife,

The knife on the rallying point.

Truly I implore thee,

Victorious Beli,

Son of Manogan, the king,

20 That will preserve the qualities

Of the honey isle of Beli,
He had a right to it.

Five chiefs there will be

Of the Gwyddyl Ffichti,

Of a sinner's disposition,
Of the race of the knife.
Five others there will be,
Of the Norddmyn's place,
The sixth a wonderful king,
30 From sowing to reaping.
The seventh proceeded

To land over the flood.

The eighth of the line of Dyvi.

Shall not be separated from prosperity,

Before the shout of Venni.

The calls of Eryri.

With difficulty thou wilt come.

Let us implore Eloi,

When we may be with Celi,

40 A dwelling of heaven will be to me.

LVII.

BOOK OF TALIESSIN L.

Text, vol. ii. p. 205. Notes, vol. ii. p. 420.

RAY God exalt over the community of Brython

The sign of gladness of a host from Mona.

There is a contention among the active patriots of Gwynedd. Of bright radiancy, from every battle to have pledges.

Powys will become grave in embraces.

Men, great-craving, will act on their laws.

Two hosts will go, they will be consonant.

Of one disposition, of one word, harmonious, compact.
They will divide justly the people of Ceredigiawn.
10 When thou seest men few about Llyn Aeron.
When will be heavy Tywi and Teivi rivers,

They will make battle in haste about Llys Llonion.

What he saw he left over-laden.

He protected not cities from indignations.

A man warm, a man that guards, a man of impulse.
He was not an utterly clownish man, Rieddon.
When Cadwallawn came

Over the ocean of Iwerdon,

He regulated heaven as high creator.

•20 Songsters, soon may I hear their cares,

An army of horsemen so harassing about Caer Llion,
And the revenge of Idwal on Aranwynyon,

And playing at ball with heads of Saxons.

There will be troubled the Cat Vreith and its strange

language,

From the ford at Taradyr, as far as Porth Wygyr in Mona.
A youth brought them to Dinas Maon.

From the time when is defended the honey and clover
They leave their noise and contention,

30 Not unpledged to raise anger against enemies.
May God exalt over the community of Brython.

LVIII.

RED BOOK OF HERGEST XV.

Text, vol. ii. p. 277. Notes, vol. ii. p. 441.

I. ADWALLAWN, before he came,
Fought, to our ample satisfaction,
Fourteen great battles,

For fairest Prydein,

And sixty skirmishes.

II. Cadwallawn encamped on Ceint;
Birds presaged the troubles of Lloegyr;
His hand was open, and honour flowed.

III. Cadwallawn encamped on Yddon,
The fierce affliction of his foes,

A lion prosperous over the Saxons.

IV. Cadwallawn the illustrious

Encamped on Digoll Mount,

For seven months and seven battles daily.

v. Cadwallawn encamped on the Havren,
And on the further side of Dygen,
And the devourers were burning Meigen.

VI. Cadwallawn encamped on the Wy,
The multitude, after passing the water,
Followed to the battle of shield.

VII. Cadwallawn encamped by the well

Of Bedwyr; before soldiers he cherished virtue ;
There Cynon showed how to assert the right.

VIII. Cadwallawn encamped on the Tav;

Very numerous I see

The sharers in the fame of the powerful chief.

IX. Cadwallawn encamped on the Tawy ;

He had the hand of slaughter in the breach;
Illustrious was he, eager he sought the conflict.

x. Cadwallawn encamped beyond the Caer
Of Caew, with an army urgent in tumult

A hundred battles, and the breaking of a hundred
Caers.

XI. Cadwallawn encamped on the Cowyn;

The hand was weary of the rein;

The men of Lloegyr, numerous their complaints.