said Rhiannon, "will not his
own name become him better?" "What name has he?" asked Pendaran Dyved.
"Gwri Wallt Euryn, is the name that we gave him." "Pryderi," said
Pendaran, "shall his name be." "It were more proper," said Pwyll, "that
the boy should take his name from the word his mother spoke when she
received the joyful tidings of him." And thus was it arranged.

"Teirnyon," said Pwyll, "Heaven reward thee that thou hast reared the boy
up to this time, and, being of gentle lineage, {36b} it were fitting that
he repay thee for it." "My Lord," said Teirnyon, "It was my wife who
nursed him, and there is no one in the world so afflicted as she at
parting with him. It were well that he should bear in mind what I and my
wife have done for him." "I call Heaven to witness," said Pwyll, "that
while I live I will support thee and thy possessions, as long as I am
able to preserve my own. And when he shall have power, he will more
fitly maintain them than I. {37a} And if this counsel be pleasing unto
thee, and to my nobles, it shall be that, as thou hast reared him up to
the present time, I will give him to be brought up by Pendaran Dyved,
from henceforth. And you shall be companions and shall both be foster-
fathers unto him." "This is good counsel," said they all. So the boy
was given to Pendaran Dyved, and the nobles of the land were sent with
him. And Teirnyon Twryv Vliant, and his companions, set out for his
country, and his possessions, with love and gladness. And he went not
without being offered the fairest jewels and the fairest horses and the
choicest dogs; but he would take none of them.

Thereupon they all remained in their own dominions. And Pryderi, the son
of Pwyll the chief of Annwvyn, was brought up carefully as was fit, so
that he became the fairest youth, and the most comely, and the best
skilled in all good games, of any in the kingdom. And thus passed years
and years, until the end of Pwyll the chief of Annwvyn's life came, and
he died.

And Pryderi ruled the seven Cantrevs of Dyved prosperously, and he was
beloved by his people, and by all around him. And at length {37b} he
added unto them the three Cantrevs of Ystrad Tywi and the four Cantrevs
of Cardigan; and these were called the Seven Cantrevs of Seissyllwch. And
when he made this addition, Pryderi the son of Pwyll the chief of
Annwvyn, desired to take a wife. And the wife he chose was Kicva, the
daughter of Gwynn Gohoyw, the son