And, lo, there came four and twenty asses, with their burdens of gold and of silver, and a tired, wayworn man with each of them, bringing tribute to Arthur from the Islands of Greece. Then Kadyriaith the son of Saidi besought that a truce might be granted to Osla Gyllellvawr for the space of a fortnight and a month, and that the asses and the burdens they carried might be given to the bards to be to them as the reward for their stay, and that their verse might be recompensed during the time of the truce. And thus it was settled.
"Rhonabwy," said Iddawc, "would it not be wrong to forbid a youth who can give counsel so liberal as this from coming to the councils of his lord?"
Then Kai arose, and he said, "Whosoever will follow Arthur, let him be with him to-night in Cornwall; and whosoever will not, let him be opposed to Arthur even during the truce."
And through the greatness of the tumult that ensued, Rhonabwy awoke. And when he awoke he was upon the yellow calf-skin, having slept three nights and three days.
And this tale is called the Dream of Rhonabwy. And this is the reason that no one knows the dream without a book, neither bard nor gifted seer, because of the various colors that were upon the horses, and the many wondrous colors of the arms and of the panoply, and of the precious scarfs, and of the virtue-bearing stones.
[PWYLL, PRINCE OF DYVED.]
Pwyll, Prince of Dyved, was lord of the seven Cantrevs of Dyved; and once upon a time he was at Narberth, his chief palace, and he was minded to go and hunt, and the part of his dominions in which it pleased him to hunt was Glyn Cuch. So he set forth from Narberth that night, and went as far as Llwyn Diarwyd. And that night he tarried there, and early on the morrow he rose and came to Glyn Cuch, when he let loose the dogs in the wood, and sounded the horn, and began the chase. And as he followed the dogs, he lost his companions; and whilst he listened to the hounds, he heard the cry of other hounds,—a cry different from his own, and coming in the opposite direction.
And he beheld a glade in the wood forming a level plain, and as his dogs came to the edge of the glade, he saw a stag before the other dogs. And, lo, as it reached the middle of the glade, the dogs that followed the stag overtook it, and brought it down. Then looked he at the color of the dogs, staying not to look at the stag; and of all the hounds that he had seen in the world he had never seen any that were like unto these. For their hair was of a brilliant shining white, and their ears were red; and as the whiteness of their bodies shone, so did the redness of their ears glisten. And he came towards the dogs, and drove away those that had brought down the stag, and set his own dogs upon it.
And as he was setting on his dogs he saw a horseman coming towards him upon a large light-gray steed, with a hunting-horn round his neck, and clad in garments of gray woollen, in the fashion of a hunting-garb. And the horseman drew near, and spake unto him thus: "Chieftain," said he, "I know who thou art, and I greet thee not."