[146a] “Bundat,” from pwn. In the original the line is imperfect, the particular part of his person that was thus pained being left unmentioned.
[146b] He here summons back his courage, and bursts into expressions of defiance as to the irresistible freedom of his awen, declaring that he would still in his dismal prison celebrate the praise of his countrymen, to the disparagement of his enemies at the battle of Cattraeth.
[146c] Lit. “make,” “compose;” ποιεω.
[146d] Perhaps this may mean no more than that Taliesin’s mind was akin to his own.
[146e] The dawn of the following morning; or, it may, be the day of liberty.
[146f] Or we may put “goroledd gogledd” in apposition with “gwr,” and construe it thus,—
“The hero, the joy of the North, effected it,”
i.e. my deliverance. Llywarch Hen and his sons came from the North.
[147a] Lit. “There does not walk upon the earth.”
[147b] “Dihafarch drud,” the same epithets are applied to Llywarch in the following Englyn y Clywed.—