"When all were extended, thou didst also fall."
{112d} The line in Gorchan Maelderw, Myv. Arch. vol. i. p. 62, has been
translated by Dr. W. O. Pughe,
"Present, ere he spoke, was carried with the arms." (Dict. _Voce_
Breichiawl.)
That in the other Gorchan of Maelderw, page 85, may be rendered,
Present narrates that he was carried with the arms.
{113a} Lit. "Three heroes and three score and three hundred, wearing the
golden torques."
{113b} If "ffosawd" ever bears the meaning assigned to it by Dr. Pughe,
it must have derived it from the practise of fighting in the _fosse_ of a
camp, (which would be peculiarly _gashing_) for on his own showing the
word has no other etymon than that of "ffos," a _ditch_, a _trench_.
From the same root Merddin gives it the sense of burial--defossio.
"A hyt vraut yth goffaaf
Dy _ffossaut_ trallaut trymmaf." (Myv. Arch. vol. i. p. 149.)
Until doom will I remember
Thy interment, which was a most heavy affliction.