“Dormarth, red-nosed, ground-grazing—
On him we perceived the speed
Of thy wandering on Cloud Mount.”
—Arthurian Legend, p. 156.
[298]. Rhys: Arthurian Legend, p. 383. Skene translates: “I am alive, they in their graves!”
[299]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, p. 561.
[300]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, pp. 561-563.
[301]. Dyer: Studies of the Gods in Greece, p. 48.
Gwyn, son of Nudd, had a brother, Edeyrn, of whom so little has come down to us that he finds his most suitable place in a foot-note. Unmentioned in the earliest Welsh legends, he first appears as a knight of Arthur’s court in the Red Book stories of “Kulhwch and Olwen”, the “Dream of Rhonabwy”, and “Geraint, the Son of Erbin”. He accompanied Arthur on his expedition to Rome, and is said also to have slain “three most atrocious giants” at Brentenol (Brent Knoll), near Glastonbury. His name occurs in a catalogue of Welsh saints, where he is described as a bard, and the chapel of Bodedyrn, near Holyhead, still stands to his honour. Modern readers will know him from Tennyson’s Idyll of “Geraint and Enid”, which follows very closely the Welsh romance of “Geraint, the Son of Erbin”.
[302]. Rhys—who calls him “a Cambrian Pluto”: Lectures on Welsh Philology, p. 414.