[129d] This name occurs in the Tale of Twrch Trwyth, page 259.
[129e] Probably Aeddon the son of Ervei: see line 845.
[130a] Or affirmatively, “a shield in the battle.”
[130b] Or “how sad their award.”
[130c] “How grievous is the longing for them.”
[130d] This line is full of poetical beauty, and forcibly exhibits how the baneful effects of the banquet, or the engagement to which it was the prelude, prevented the return of the warriors home, which their friends so ardently desired.
[130e] This figure is similar to that in the fourth line of the stanza.
[131a] His name occurs again in the poem. The “horn of Gwlgawd Gododin” is mentioned in the Tale of “Kilhwch and Olwen,” p. 283.
[131b] Or in reference to the banquet itself,—“notable were its effects, and it was the price which bought the battle of Cattraeth,” i.e. bought, or brought about its disastrous consequences.
[131c] That is, contributed his life towards a victory.