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Preiddeu Annwn: The Spoils of Annwn

by: Sarah Higley (Translator) from: The Camelot Project  2007 [The following is the text (and translation) of a poem taken from the fourteenth-century Llyfr Taliesin]I 
 

11. Neut wyf glot geinmyn     cerd ochlywir.	11. I am honored in praise.     Song was heard
12. ygkaer pedryuan      pedyr ychwelyt.	12. in the Four-Peaked Fortress,      four its revolutions.
13. yg kenneir     or peir      pan leferit.	13. My poetry,     from the cauldron     it was uttered.
14. Oanadyl naw morwyn     gochyneuit.	14. From the breath of nine maidens     it was kindled.
15. Neu peir pen annwfyn     pwy y vynut.	15. The cauldron of the chief of Annwfyn:     what is its fashion?
16. gwrym am yoror     amererit.	16. A dark ridge around its border     and pearls.
17. Ny beirw bwyt llwfyr     ny rytyghit.	17. It does not boil the food of a coward;     it has not been destined.
18. cledyf lluch lleawc     idaw rydyrchit.	18. The flashing sword of Lleawch     has been lifted to it.
19. Ac yn llaw leminawc     yd edewit.	19. And in the hand of Lleminawc     it was left.
20. Arac drws porth vffern     llugyrn lloscit.	20. And before the door of hell     lamps burned.
21. Aphan aetham ni gan arthur     trafferth lechrit	21. And when we went with Arthur,     brilliant difficulty,
22. namyn seith     ny dyrreith     o gaer vedwit.	22. except seven     none rose up     from the Fortress of Mead-Drunkenness.