Therein Sir Brut, expell'd from flaming Troy.
Caradoc's version of the descent of Brut differs somewhat from that of Geoffrey of Monmouth, but perhaps it is quite as true. According to Geoffrey, Brut is great-grandson to Æneas, and therefore not expelled from "flaming Troy." Caradoc follows his own (no doubt authentic) legends, also, as to the aboriginal population of the island, which, according to Geoffrey, were giants, not devils. The cursory and contemptuous way in which that delicious romance-writer speaks of these poor giants is inimitable—"Albion a nemine, exceptis paucis gigantibus, inhabitabatur."—"Albion was inhabited by nobody—except, indeed, a few giants!"
And bids that Saint, who now speaks Welch on high.
Saint bran, the founder of one of the three sacred lineages of Britain, was the first introducer of Christianity among the Cymry.
And thou, fair favourite in the Fairy court.
Gwyn-ab-nudd, the king of the fairies. He is, also, sometimes less pleasingly delineated as the king of the infernal regions; the Welch Pluto—much the same as, in the chivalric romance-writers, Proserpine is sometimes made the queen of the fairies.
"Arthur my name, from Ynys Vel I come.