[98c] A reference to the last unction. See St. James, v. 14.
[98d] I.e. Tudvwlch Hir, the hero of this particular stanza.
[99a] “Ne.” The statement at line 138 would determine the affirmative character of this word.
[99b] “Veinoethyd,” (meinoethydd;) not “in the celebration of May Eve,” which is Davies’s rendering, as we clearly infer from the conjunction of the word with “meinddydd,” (confessedly a serene day) in Kadeir Taliesin and Gwawd y Lludd Mawr. (See Myv. Arch. v. i. pp. 37, 74.)
[99c] “Gynatcan.” Al. “gyvatcan,” (cyvadgan) a proverb. “Though his success was proverbial.”
[99d] Or, “Through ambition he was a soarer.” The person here commemorated was of an ambitious turn of mind, and bore armorial ensigns of a corresponding character, which were looked upon, in a manner, as prophetic of his successful career as a warrior, but the result of this battle miserably belied such a promise.
“Prenial yw i bawb ei drachwres.”
The path of glory leads but to the grave.—(Taliesin.)
[99e] Where Edinburgh now stands; and which was probably the head quarters of Mynyddawg, (see line 89 note.) In a poem printed in Davies’s Mythology of the Druids, p. 574, and supposed to have been written by Aneurin, Tudvwlch and Cyvwlch are represented as feasting with Mynyddawg.
“Gan Vynydawc
Bu adveiliawc
Eu gwirodau.”Destructive were their wassails with Mynyddawg.
[100a] In the Poem alluded to, Tudvwlch Hir is described as a man of dignity, “breein,” and as having in conjunction with Cyvwlch made breaches in the bastions of forts,—