s, I was eloquent in my complaint,
It will be extolled, what is not wonderful--
The men of Argoed have ever supported me!

{191a} "Gwal." "The Cymmry appropriated this name to regions that were
cultivated and had fixed inhabitancy, as opposed to the wilds, or the
unsettled residences of the Celtiaid, Celyddon, Gwyddyl, Gwyddelod,
Ysgotiaid, and Ysgodogion; which are terms descriptive of such tribes as
lived by hunting and tending their flocks." (Dr. Pughe, sub. voce.)
Both descriptions of persons are thus included in the Bard's affectionate
regret. Al. "accustomed at the rampart."

{191b} "Pwys;" pressure or weight. Or perhaps "arlwydd pwys" means "the
legitimate lord," in opposition to usurpers, just as a wedded wife is
styled "gwraig bwys," as distinguished from a concubine.

{191c} "Dilyvn;" or perhaps "dylyvn," smooth.

{191d} Al. "rekindled."

{191e} "Gosgroyw," rather fresh.

{191f} Geraint, the son of Erbin, was prince of Dyvnaint, (Devon) and
one of the three owners of fleets of the Isle of Britain, each fleet
consisting of 120 ships, and each ship being manned by 120 persons.

"Tri Llynghesawg ynys Prydain; Geraint mab Erbin; Gwenwynwyn mab Nav;
a March mab Meirchion; a chweugain llong gan bob un o'r
Llynghesogion, a chweugain llongwyr ymhob llong." (Triad 68, Third
series.)

Llywarch Hen wrote an Elegy upon Geraint, in which the place of his death
is thus mentioned;--

"Yn Llongborth y llas Geraint,
Gwr dewr o goettir Dyvnaint,
Wyntwy yn lladd gyd a's lleddaint."

At Llongborth was Geraint slain,
A strenuous warrior from the woodland of Dyvnaint,
Slaughtering his foes as he fell.

Geraint ab Erbin was the grandfather of Aneurin, but as he died in king
Arthur's time, A.D. 530, we can hardly identify him with the Geraint of
the text, who probably was a son, or some other relation, that had
inherited his fleet.

{192a} "Llwch gwyn," probably "Vanduara," _Gwyn Dwr_, or White Water,
which seems to have been one of the old designations of a river in
Renfrewshire. (See _Caledonia Romana_, p. 143.) Adar y y llwch gwyn,
the birds of the white lake, is a mythological epithet for vultures.
Their history is recorded in the Iolo MSS. p. 600.

{192b} Al. "There was a white badge on his shield."

{192c} Lit. "his anchor."

{192d} "Cyman," "cydvan," (i.e. cyd man) the place of gathering. Al.
"his broken anchor."

{192e} It is not improba