ed ungentle son-in-law, truly," said he, "the hard
iron pains me like the bite of a horse-leech. Cursed be the hearth
whereon it was heated, and the smith who formed it! So sharp is it!
Henceforth, whenever I go up a hill, I shall have a scant in my breath,
and a pain in my chest, and I shall often loathe my food." And they went
to meat.

And the third day they returned to the palace. And Yspaddaden Penkawr
said to them, "Shoot not at me again unless you desire death. Where are
my attendants? Lift up the forks of my eyebrows which have fallen over
my eyeballs, that I may see the fashion of my son-in-law." Then they
arose, and, as they did so, Yspaddaden Penkawr took the third poisoned
dart, and cast it at them. And Kilhwch caught it, and threw it
vigorously, and wounded him through the eyeball, so that the dart came
out at the back of his head. "A cursed ungentle son-in-law, truly! As
long as I remain alive, my eyesight will be the worse. Whenever I go
against the wind, my eyes will water; and peradventure my head will burn,
and I shall have a giddiness every new moon. Cursed be the fire in which
it was forged. Like the bite of a mad dog is the stroke of this poisoned
iron." And they went to meat.

And the next day they came again to the palace, and they said, "Shoot not
at us any more, unless thou desirest such hurt, and harm, and torture as
thou now hast, and even more. Give me thy daughter; and if thou wilt not
give her, thou shall receive thy death because of her." "Where is he
that seeks my daughter? Come hither where I may see thee." And they
placed him a chair face to face with him.

Said Yspaddaden Penkawr, "Is it thou that seekest my daughter?" "It is
I," answered Kilhwch. "I must have thy pledge that thou wilt not do
towards me otherwise than is just, and, when I have gotten that which I
shall name, my daughter thou shalt have." "I promise thee that
willingly," said Kilhwch; "name what thou wilt." "I will do so," said
he.

"Seest thou yonder vast hill?" "I see it." "I require that it be rooted
up, and that the grubbings be burned for manure on the face of the land,
and that it be ploughed and sown in one day, and in one day that the
grain ripen. And of that wheat I intend to make food and liquor fit for
the wedding of thee and my daughter. And all this I require to be done
in one day."

"It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest think that
it will not be easy.