[353]. The following episode is retold from Lady Guest’s translation of the Mabinogi of Mâth, Son of Mathonwy.
[354]. Now called Pen y Gaer. It is on the summit of a hill half-way between Llanrwst and Conway, and about a mile from the station of Llanbedr.
[355]. Said to have been at Rhuddlan Teivi, which is, perhaps, Glan Teivy, near Cardigan Bridge.
[356]. Poem XIX in the Black Book of Caermarthen, Vol. I, p. 309, of Skene.
“In Aber Gwenoli is the grave of Pryderi,
Where the waves beat against the land.”
[358]. A poem in praise of Geraint, “the brave man from the region of Dyvnaint (Devon) ... the enemy of tyranny and oppression”, is contained in both the Black Book of Caermarthen and the Red Book of Hergest. “When Geraint was born, open were the gates of heaven”, begins its last verse. It is translated in Vol. I of Skene, p. 267.
[359]. Rhys: Arthurian Legend, p. 8.
[360]. Rhys: Hibbert Lectures, pp. 40-41.