Be you in my form there,’ said he, ‘and one blow you may give to him he will not survive that. ‘Well,’ said Pwyll, ‘though I might be there until the end of the year, what guidance will I have for finding the man you speak of?’ ‘A year from tonight,’ said the other, ‘there is a meeting arranged between me and him at the ford. And that,’ said he, ‘until the end of a year from tomorrow, and our meeting then in this place.’ This is how I will do it I will put you in my place in Annwn, and I will give you the fairest woman that you have ever seen to sleep with you every night, and my face and my form on you so that there may be neither chamberlain nor officer nor other man that ever followed me who might know that you are not me. I will make a strong bond of friendship with you. And tell me how I can do that.’ ‘I will tell you,’ replied Arawn, ‘This is how you can. ‘I will do that,’ said Pwyll, ‘with pleasure.
For the removal of that oppression on me – and that you can easily do – you will get my friendship.’ 6 And from what land do you come?’ ‘From Annwn, 7 ’ said the other, ‘Arawn, a king of Annwn am I.’ ‘Lord,’ said Pwyll, ‘how will I obtain your friendship?’ ‘This is how you will get it,’ said the other, ‘A man there is, whose territory borders on my territory, who is warring on me constantly. That,’ said he, ‘was discourtesy, and although I will not avenge myself on you, between me and God,’ said he, ‘I will shame you to the value of an hundred stags.’ ‘Chieftain,’ said Pwyll, ‘if I have done ill, I will redeem your friendship.’ ‘How,’ said the other, ‘will you redeem it?’ ‘According to your rank but I do not know who you are.’ ‘A crowned king am I in the land that I come from.’ ‘Lord,’ said Pwyll, ‘good day to you.
And then the horseman came towards him and spoke to him thus ‘Chieftain,’ said he, I know who you are, and I will not greet you.’ ‘Well,’ replied Pwyll, ‘perhaps you are of a rank that you are not obliged to.’ ‘God knows,’ said the huntsman, ‘it is not the dignity of my rank that holds me back from that.’ ‘Chieftain,’ said the other, ‘what else?’ ‘Between me and God,’ said the stranger, ‘your own ignorance and your discourtesy.’ ‘What discourtesy, chieftain, have you seen in me?’ ‘I have not seen discourtesy greater in a man,’ said he, ‘than driving off the pack that had killed the stag, and baiting your own pack on it. 5Īnd as Pwyll was baiting his dogs, he saw a horseman coming after the pack on a great dapple-grey horse with a hunting horn around his neck, and a garment of grey-brown material on him as a hunting-dress. Then he came up with the dogs and drove away the pack that had killed the stag, and baited 4 his own pack on the stag. And as the whiteness of the dogs shone, so shone the redness of their ears. Their colour was a bright shining white and their ears were red.
And from what he had seen of hunting dogs of the world, he had not seen dogs of similar colour to these. Towards the centre of the clearing, the pack that was after it overtook it and brought it to the ground.Īnd then Pwyll looked at the colour of the pack, without bothering to look at the stag. And Pwyll saw a clearing in the wood, by way of a level field and as his pack reached the edge of the clearing, he saw a stag in front of the other pack. And as he was listening to the cry of the pack, he heard the cry of another pack, and they were not the same cry, and those were coming to meet his own pack. He sounded his horn to begin to muster the hunt, and went after the dogs, and became separated from his companions. On the next day, in the youth of the day, he arose and came to Llyn Cuch to release his dogs under the trees. He started that night from Arberth, and came as far as Pen Llwyn Diarwya, and stayed there overnight. The part of his lands that he wanted to hunt was Glyn Cuch. And once upon a time he was in Arberth, a principal court of his, and it came into his mind and his thoughts to go hunting. Pwyll Prince of Dyfed was lord over the seven cantrefs 3 of Dyfed.
Translated by Angela Grant Part One : Pwyll and Arawn
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