[32] For some more remarks on this subject generally, see my Arthurian Legend, chapter xv, on the ‘Isles of the Dead.’ [↑]
[33] See his Itinerarium Kambriæ, ii. 11 (p. 139); also my Celtic Britain, p. 68, and Arthurian Legend, p. 364. [↑]
[34] From the Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, i. 302. [↑]
[35] I regard nid kywiw as a corruption of ni chywiw from cyf-yw, an instance of the verb corresponding to cymod (= cym-bod), ‘peace, conciliation.’ The preterite has, in the Oxford Bruts, A.D. 1217 (p. 358), been printed kynni for what one may read kymu: the words would then be y kymu reinald y breỽys ar brenhin, ‘that Reginald de Breos was reconciled with the king, or settled matters with him.’ [↑]
[36] See the Book of Taliessin, poem xxx, in Skene’s Four Ancient Books, ii. 181; also Guest’s Mabinogion, ii. 354, and the Brython for 1860, p. 372b, where more than one article of similar capacity of distinguishing brave men from cowards is mentioned. [↑]
[37] See Dugdale’s Monasticon, v. 672, where they are printed Dwynech and Dwynaur respectively. [↑]
[38] See my Hibbert Lectures, pp. 649–50. [↑]
[39] A full account of them will be found in a volume devoted to them, and entitled Roman Antiquities at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, being a posthumous work of the Rev. W. Hiley Bathurst, with Notes by C. W. King, London, 1879. See also an article entitled ‘Das Heiligtum des Nodon,’ by Dr. Hübner in the Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande, lxvii. pp. 29–46, where several things in Mr. King’s book are criticized. [↑]
[40] See my Hibbert Lectures, pp. 122, 125. [↑]
[41] On this subject, see The Welsh People, especially pp. 54–61. [↑]