ied to Gwen.

{148a} Al. "He bestowed his sword upon the," &c.

{148b} Al. "lynwyssawr;" "he was a plague;" or "with his arm he made
pools of blood."

{148c} "Seil," lit. "foundation."

{148d} This seems to countenance the idea suggested in the note to line
346, that the _Neuadd_ was none other than the camp itself.

{148e} "Keingyell," ceingel; a hank of thread.

{148f} This was probably his sword which flashed.

{148g} Llywarch Hen's son, see note to line 272. He was slain "ar ryd
vorlas," on the ford of Morlas, which, as far as its etymology is
concerned, would very well answer to the scene of the battle of
Cattraeth.

{148h} There is much poetic force in this line.

{149a} Perhaps _Luce_ Bay, near _Leuco_pibia.

{149b} Llywarch Hen, in his Elegy on Urien Rheged, speaks thus,--

"Yn Aber _Lleu_ lladd Urien."

In Aber _Lleu_ Urien was slain.

{149c} Probably on the river _Lid_, or Liddel, on the northern borders
of Cumberland.

{149d} It is not unlikely that the "cangen Caerwys," formed a part of
the great fleet of Geraint, who is styled in Brut Tysilio, "Geraint
Caerwys."

{149e} A poetical definition of a storm in winter.

{149f} "Rhiallu" means also the power of a sovereign, but as it is not
likely that Aneurin would acknowledge the regal claims of the enemy, we
have thought it more consistent with the general design of the poem to
adopt a construction, which shows the advantages possessed by the enemy
over the natives in point of numerical strength.

"Deg myrdd yn y rhiallu, deg rhiallu yn y vynta, a deg mynta yn y
gatyrva."

Ten myriads in the riallu ten times the riallu, in the mynta, ten
mynta in the catyrva.

{150a} "Dyvu wyt," dyvnwydd; or according to Gorch. Mael. dyvwn, i.e.
Devon, the country of Geraint ab Erbin,--"Gwr dewr o goettir Dyvnaint."
(Llywarch Hen.)

{150b} "Yd wodyn," from _gwoddew_, purpose or design. Al. "foddyn," did
they drown.

{150c} Qu. _Carban_tium in the province of Valentia?

{150d} Dyvynawl Vrych, or Donald Brec, who is said in the Scotch
Chronicles to have been slain in the battle of Vraithe Cairvin, (qu. Carw
van?) by Owain king of the Britons. He is introduced to our notice again
in the Gododin.

{150e} Or, _a bolt_.

{150f} Pwyll in some of the pedigrees of Gwynvardd Dyved is said to be
the son of Argoel, or Aircol Law Hir, son of Pyr y Dwyrain; but Mr.
Davies in the "Rites and Mythology of the Druids