Identifier: mythslegendscelt00roll (find matches)
Title: Myths and legends ; the Celtic race
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920
Subjects: Celts Celts Celtic literature Legends, Celtic
Publisher: Boston : Nickerson
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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d withhim, who were concealed outside, rushed in, andcaptured and bound the followers of Gwawl. Whatis in the bag .? they cried, and others answered, Abadger, and so they played the game of Badger inthe Bag, striking it and kicking it about the hall. At last a voice was heard from it. Lord, criedGwawl, if thou wouldst but hear me, 1 merit not tobe slain in a bag. He speaks truth, said HevyddHen. So an agreement was come to that Gwawl shouldprovide means for Pwyll to satisfy all the euitors andminstrels who should come to the wedding, andabandon Rhiannon, and never seek to have revengefor what had been done to him. This was confirmedby sureties, and Gwawl and his men were released andwent to their own territory. And Pwyll weddedRhiannon, and dispensed gifts royally to all andsundry ; and at last the pair, when the feasting wasdone, journeyed down to the palace of Narberth inDyfed, where Rhiannon gave rich gifts, a bracelet anda ring or a precious stone to all the lords and ladies of%6%
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The Penance of Rhiannon 362 THE FINDING OF PRYDERI her new country, and they ruled the land in peaceboth that year and the next. But the reader will findthat we have not yet done with Gwawl. The Penance of Rhiannon Now Pwyll was still without an heir to the throne,and his nobles urged him to take another wife. Grantus a year longer, said he, and if there be no heirafter that it shall be as you wish.** Before the yearsend a son was born to them in Narberth. But althoughsix women sat up to watch the mother and the infant,it happened towards the morning that they all fellasleep, and Rhiannon also slept, and when the womenawoke, behold, the boy was gone I We shall beburnt for this,* said the women, and in their terrorthey concocted a horrible plot : they killed a cub ofa staghound that had just been littered, and laid thebones by Rhiannon, and smeared her face and handswith blood as she slept, and when she woke and askedfor her child they said she had devoured it in the night,and had over

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