The Mabinogion: From the Welsh of the Llyfr Coch O Hergest (The Red Book of Hergest) in the Library of Jesus College, OxfordBernard Quaritch, 1877 - 504 pages |
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Page 346 - to the mound, to sit there. And do thou," said he to the page who tended his horse, " saddle my horse well, and hasten with him to the road, and bring also my spurs with thee." And the youth did thus. And they went and sat upon the mound; and ere they had been there but a short time, they beheld the lady coming by the same road, and in the same manner, and at the same pace. "Young man," said Pwyll, "I see the lady coming; give me my horse.
Page 426 - So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Flower-Aspect.
Page 241 - It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest think it will not be easy.
Page 219 - And in the youth's hand were two spears of silver, sharp, well-tempered, headed with steel, three ells in length, of an edge to wound the wind and cause blood to flow, and swifter than the fall of the dewdrop from the blade of reed-grass upon the earth when the de-w of June is at the heaviest.
Page 100 - Welcome unto thee, chieftain," said Arthur. "With me thou shalt remain; and had I known thy valour had been such, thou shouldst not have left me as thou didst; nevertheless, this was predicted of thee by the dwarf and the dwarfess, whom Kai ill-treated and whom thou hast avenged.
Page 482 - I have been with my Lord in the manger of the ass ; I strengthened Moses through the water of Jordan ; I have been in the firmament with Mary Magdalene ; I have obtained the muse from the cauldron of Ceridwen ; I have been bard of the harp to Lleon of Lochlin.
Page 63 - And in his hond a brod mirrour of glas ; Upon his thombe he had of gold a ring, And by his side a naked sword hanging ; And up he rideth to the highe bord. In all the halle rie was ther spoke a word, For mervaille of this knight ; him to behold Full besily they waiten, young and old.
Page 14 - And Owain rose up, and clothed himself, and opened a window of the chamber, and looked towards the castle; and he could see neither the bounds nor the extent of the hosts that filled the streets. And they were fully armed; and a vast number of women were with them, both on horseback and on foot, and all the ecclesiastics in the city singing.
Page 332 - Gwevyl, the son of Gwestad (on the day that he was sad, he would let one of his lips drop below his waist, while he turned up the other like a cap upon his head...
Page 168 - ... there was a river before them, and the horses bent down and drank the water. And they went up out of the river by a lofty steep; and there they met a slender stripling, with a satchel about his neck, and they saw that there was something in the satchel, but they knew not what it was. And he had a small blue pitcher in his hand, and a bowl on the mouth of the pitcher.