The Mabinogion : From the Welsh of the Llyfr Coch O Hergest (The Red book of Hergest) in the Library of Jesus College, Oxford
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281 And thiis, ' Sure-Loofed is my steed in the day of battle : The high sprigs of alder are on thy hand : Bran by the branch thou bearest Has Amathaon the good prevailed.' " These lines have the appearance of being transcribed from a very ancient and probably mutilated manuscript. Some of the words are scarcely intelligible ; but perhaps the foregoing will be found not very remote from the meaning of the original. This battle, in the Triads, is styled one of the three frivolous battles (oferga...d) of the Island of Britain, and is said to have been on account of a bitch, a hind, and a lapwing ; and it is added that it cost the lives of seventy-one thousand men. — Triad 50. The brothers, Gwydion and Amaethon, are mentioned as being efficient of counsel, in Taliesin's Elegy on Aeddon of Mon.* Oxen of Gwlwlyd. — Page 236. These animals, to which some fabulous story probably attached, are spoken of in the Triads, together with those required by Yspaddaden in the subsequent paragraph. — Tr.
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