The Mabinogion Vol. 1 by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards and Lady Charlotte Schreiber (best english novels for beginners .TXT) 📕

to inform them of the manners and the customs of the Court, those he was told were to go to the hall or the presence chamber, and those he was told were to get lodging.

[17a]  And I did not think there was in the world a wrong too mighty for me to set right.  And when I had set right all the wrongs that were in my own country.

[17b]  Add “with fair curly hair.”

[18a]  And such was his courtesy that he greeted me before I could greet him.

[18b]  Add, “I ween that.”

[18c]  When she was ever loveliest, at Christmas, or at Easter tide mass.

[19a]  And the man I had seen erstwhile sat down to the table.

[19b]  Did I not think that too much trouble would befall thee.

[20]  With querulous roughness.

[21a]  And he would but bandy words with me.

[21b]  So that they cannot be separated.

[27]  Add “On account of the knight.”

[28]  An image of a different kind.

[29a]  Monks.

[29b]  Land-owning.

[30]  Louder was her cry than any trumpet blast that arose from among the multitude.

[31]  “Truly,” said Luned, “I thought thy good sense was greater than I find it to be.  Is it better to grieve because thou canst not get that good man, than it is to grieve for anything else thou canst never get?”  “I declare to heaven,” said the Countess, “that I could never get my lord in any other man, be he the best in the world.”  “Oh yes,” said Luned, “thou couldst marry a husband that would be as good as he, or better than he.”

[36]  Encamped.

[37a]  Add “and looked at him.”

[37b]  And belaboured each other.

[38]  Add “and this is my abode.”

[39]  To the disgrace of thy beard.

[45]  Owen was certain he had never seen better service, but every one was as sorrowful as if death had been upon him.

[46a]  And to-morrow is the appointed day for me to meet him, to deliver to him yonder maiden, otherwise he will kill my sons before my eyes.

[46b]  And the Earl determined to hold the castle against him, abandoning his two sons to their fate.

[47]  And they told him their tale.

[48]  But Owen’s strength had not yet returned.

[52]  Her.

[56]  And very unmeet for so honourable a Court.

[58]  Add “causing a grievous wound.”

[59a]  “This iron coat will never come off him,” said Peredur.  “I doubt whether it is not part of himself, born with him.”

[59b]  Add “and the threat against Kai.”

[62]  We are brother and sister.

[72]  In the dingle.

[76]  Progress.

[102]  And the side that he would favour would lose the game.

[108]  And they reckoned that the corn land of Powys, from Aber Ceirawc in Allictun Ver to Rhyd Wilure on the Vyrnwy, was as good as the three best commots in Powys; and that, if there was not sustenance for him and his followers in that corn land, there would be none in Powys.

[109]  Scantly draped, poverty-stricken.

[111]  Moustache.

[112]  Bedwin.

[116a]  For fear of being crushed by his horse.

[116b]  A red moustache.

[124a]  Murheth.

[124b]  Bedwin.

[124c]  Oth.

[125a]  Heneidd.

[125b]  Adwy.

[125c]  Dyrstan.

[125d]  Llara.

[125e]  Kasnat.

[125f]  It is his privilege that everyone should come to have counsel with him.

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