[154g] “Luthvin,” (glwth vin.) Al. “the edge of his sword gleamed.”
[154h] The Saxon herald.
[154i] “Gnaws gwan,” him, who was necessarily in a weak or defenceless state, namely the British herald.
[154j] By the “bulwark of toil” is probably understood Morien.
[155a] Being like him a Bard.
[155b] “Cynrennin.” Al. “expert.” The conference having been so egregiously violated by the assassination of the British herald, is immediately broken up, and the advice of Aneurin eagerly followed.
[155c] Their loquacity and haste had been greatly excited by liquor.
[155d] See Notes to stanza xxxviii.
[155e] The treacherous herald before mentioned.
[156a] Another way of construing these two lines would be,—