Y Gododin: A Poem of the Battle of Cattraeth

by Aneirin

“With a feast of wine and a banquet of mead, endowed
By Cynlaith, mother of Hwrraith, was the energetic Eidol.”

Also,—

“With a feast of wine and a banquet of mead,
Did his brave (hwrraith from hwrdd) mother
Cynlaith, enrich
The energetic Eidol.”

Again,—

“With a feast of wine and a banquet of mead,
Did his mother Hwrraith
At the first fall of the dew (cyn llaith) enrich
The energetic Eidol.”

[160a] The hill on which the vanguard was stationed.

[160b] Waiting their prey.

[160c] “Cynydaw” (cnydiaw) to yield a crop. Cynydaw means also to rise; and we may thus construe the passage,—

“The foremost spearmen spring up around him.”

Another reading gives “cwydaw” to fall, in allusion to the slaughter of the men; adopting this expression, it would seem that “arnaw” was more applicable to “racvre,” the mount of the van.