{17} "The Visions of the Sleeping Bard:" Being Ellis Wynne's
"Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg," Translated by Robert Gwyneddon Davies.
Carnarvon (Welsh Publishing Co., Ltd.), 1909.
{34} Emrys, King of Britain, lying sick at Canterbury, a Saxon of the
name of Eppa disguised himself as a religious person, and pretending to
be versed in medicine, obtained admission to the Monarch and administered
to him a poisoned draught, of which he died.
{39} Glyndwr signifies watery valley.
{49a} Written in the fifth century.
{49b} The British, like many other nations, whose early history is
involved in obscurity, claim a Trojan descent.
{54a} Awen, or poetic genius, which he is said to have imbibed in his
childhood, whilst employed in watching the cauldron of the Sorceress
Cridwen.
{54b} I was but a child, but am now Taliesin,--Taliesin signifies: brow
of brightness.
{64} The harp.
{74} Ale.
{137} The "streams of generosity" were those of Dafydd ab Thomas Vychan.
(See "Wild Wales," chap. lxxxviii.)--_Ed._
{167} "What is _hiraeth_? Hiraeth is longing, the mourning, consuming
feeling which one experiences for the loss of a beloved object."--_G.B._
{187} The personage who figures in the splendid forgeries of MacPherson
under the name of Fingal.
{191} The Gaelic word for nobleman.
{197} Ancient bards, to whose mansion, in the clouds, the speaker hopes
that his spirit will be received.