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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  

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35. Ny obrynaf y lawyr     llaes eu kylchwy	35. I do not merit little men,     slack their shield straps.
36. ny wdant wy pydyd     peridyd pwy.	36. They do not know which day     who was created (or: created whom?);
37. py awr ymeindyd     y ganet cwy.	37. what hour of midday (?)     Cwy was born.
38. Pwy gwnaeth     arnyt aeth     doleu defwy.	38. Who made him     who did not go     (to the) meadows of Defwy?
39. ny wdant wy yrych brych      bras y penrwy.	39. They do not know the brindled ox,     thick his headband.
40. Seith vgein kygwng     yny aerwy.	40. Seven score links     on his collar.
41. Aphan aetham ni gan arthur     auyrdwl gofwy.	41. And when we went with Arthur,     dolorous visit,
42. namyn seith     ny dyrreith     o gaer vandwy.	42. except seven     none rose up     from the fortress of God's Peak.