{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/fab/fab049.htm","path":"neu/celt/fab/fab049.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/fab/fab049.htm","text":"I. ON a fine night Pen Gethin heard the shout of a host,\n When he took a long leap;\n Unless the ground be guarded he will not cease.\nII. Since Coegawg is so rich as this in gold,\n Close to the court of Gwallawg\n I also shall be wealthy.\nIII. Accursed be the tree\n Which pulled out his eye in his presence,\n Gwallawg ab Lleenawg, the ruler.\nIV. Accursed be the black tree\n That pulled out his eye from its place,\n Gwallawg ab Lleenawg, the chief of armies.\nV. Accursed be the white tree\n That pulled out his eye from his head,\n Gwallawg ab Lleenawg, the sovereign.\nVI. Accursed be the green tree\n That pulled out his eye when a youth,\n Gwallawg ab Lleenawg, the honourable.\u00a01\n336:1 On the margin:\n No one that was eminent went\n In the way that Gwallawg did,\n With his steel into the meadow.\nNo one that was honourable went\n In the way that Meurig did,\n With a bandage to the woman in three folds.","title":"Four Ancient Books of Wales: H. Poems Relating to Gwallawg ap Lleenawg: XXXIV. Black Book of Caermarthen XXXII.","type":"page"}