r the line thus,--

He repelled violence, and gore trickled to the ground.

Perhaps the identity of the person commemorated with the son of Ysgyran
would become more evident by the addition of a comma after "gyssul,"
thus,--

"Ket dyffei wyned a gogled e rann
O gussyl,--mah Ysgyrran."

Who Ysgyran, or Cyran (the _ys_ being a mere prefix) was, we have no
means of knowing, as the name does not occur any where in history.

{88b} Al. "The maimed shield-bearer," (ysgwydwr.)

{88c} "Cyn-nod," the principal mark or butt; the most conspicuous, owing
to his being in advance of his men, and perhaps on account of his stature
also, if "eg gawr," or "yggawr" mean _giantlike_.

{88d} "Cyn-ran;" the foremost share, or participation of an action.

{89a} "Pymwnt," (i.e. pum mwnt; "deg myrdd yn y mwnt,") five hundred
thousand, which, multiplied by five, would give us 2,500,000 as the
number of men who composed the above battalions.

{89b} Deivyr and Bryneich, (_Deira and Bernicia_) are situated on the
eastern coast of the island, the river Humber, as we learn from the
Triads, (Myv. Arch. vol. ii. p. 68) flowing through a portion thereof.
In a document which has been published in the Iolo MSS. Argoed
Derwennydd, (Derwent wood probably) and the river Trenn or Trent, are
mentioned as the extreme boundaries of the region. The triads moreover
speak of the three sons of Dysgyvedawg, (or Dysgyvyndawd) viz. Gall,
Difedel, and Ysgavnell, under the appellation of the "three monarchs of
Deivyr and Bryneich," (Ibid. p. 64) about the period, as it would appear,
of our Poem.

It is clear from the above passage in the Gododin, as well as from those
lines, (78, 79.)

"Ar deulu brenneych beych barnasswn
Dilyw dyn en vyw nys adawsswn."

If I had judged you to be of the tribe of Bryneich,
Not the phantom of a man would I have left alive;

that the people of those countries were not at the time in question on
friendly terms with the neighbouring Britons; which circumstance is
further apparent from the contemporary testimony of Llywarch Hen, who
speaks of Urien as having conquered the land of Bryneich;

"Neus gorug o dir Brynaich."

This, it is true, might have a reference to the Saxon tribes, who had
succeeded at an early period, in establishing themselves along the coast
in that part of the island, yet the disparaging manner in which the grave
of Disgyrnin Disgyfedawt, evidently the father of the "th