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"I will pay the ransom that is fitting for a prince of Morganwg to pay when his foes have the advantage of him. The honour of the Cymro is concerned." "Ask him his value," said Jago in Saxon, knowing that Mordred did not understand that tongue at all. "Never was so good a chance of selling a man at his own price." Then I could not help a smile, and Mordred waxed furious.
Is that the value of a prince of Morganwg? It is ill to insult a captive." "Nay, Prince, there is no insult " "By St. Petroc, but there is, though! What will the men of Morganwg what will the Dyfed men say when they hear that the Saxon holds one of the line of Arthur at the value of a hundred cows? Ay, that is how I shall be known henceforth! Mordred of the cows, forsooth."
There was only one of the many singers I heard at the Festival who at all charmed me, and that was a little vocalist of much repute in Southern Wales for her bird-like voice and brilliancy of execution. Her professional name was pretty enough, Eos Vach Morganwg, "The Little Nightingale of Glamorgan."
This cruder belief is more familiar in the folklore of Europe than the other. Iolo Morganwg, a well-known Welsh antiquary, used to relate a curious tradition concerning this rock.
"Has he company, then?" "Oh, very good company plenty of company! he got Taliesin Owen Glyndwr Iolo Morganwg and all the rest of them! and he's quite happy in their company. But once he comes down to live with us he's as rough and prickly as a birch-broom. Indeed he wass nevver used to be like this whatever; 'tis ever since his brother John die, and leave all his money to Valmai."
Is there thought that Owen may be taken out of the country, as Oswald was taken?" "Every port and every fisher is watched, and has been so. For that was the first thing we feared. And word has gone to Howel of Dyfed and Mordred of Morganwg, farther up the channel, that they should watch their shores also. Nought has been left undone that may be done."
"From all I ever heard of Morganwg, he should be some sort of reward for what you have done. I should set his price high also, for he deserves it for coming here." So I took Mordred to my tent, telling him that I must speak of him of ransom. "Ransom? Of course, that will be paid. What price do you set on me?"
"Athenæum," No. 2,400, 25 Oct. 1873, giving an account of Bishop Melchisedech's book, entitled "Lipovenismulu," on the creed and customs of the Raskolnics, or Russian schismatics. "Trans. Aberd. Evan Evans, and said to be, when copied by Iolo Morganwg, in the possession of Paul Panton, Esq., of Anglesea.
He says nothing of the "Mabinogion." He had apparently never heard of the pedestrian Iolo Morganwg. He perhaps never saw Stephens' "Literature of the Kymry." His knowledge was picked up anyhow and anywhere from Welsh texts and Lhuyd's "Archaeologia," without system and with very little friendly discussion or comparison. Wales, therefore, was to him as wonderful as Spain, and equally uncharted.
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