[333]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, p. 678.
[334]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, p. 123 and note. Clûd was probably the goddess of the River Clyde. See Rhys: Arthurian Legend, p. 294.
[335]. Pronounced Pridaíry.
[336]. Retold from Lady Guest’s translation of the Mabinogi of Branwen, the Daughter of Llyr.
[337]. Rhys—Lectures on Welsh Philology—compares Matholwch with Mâth, and the story, generally, with the Greek myth of Persephoné.
[338]. A bardic name for Britain.
[339]. This personage may have been the same as the Gaulish god Taranis. Mention, too, is made in an ancient Irish glossary of “Etirun, an idol of the Britons”.
[340]. This spot, called by a twelfth-century Welsh poet “The White Eminence of London, a place of splendid fame”, was probably the hill on which the Tower of London now stands.
[341]. The island of Gresholm, off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
[342]. The Gododin of Aneurin, as translated by T. Stephens. Branwen is there called “the lady Bradwen”.