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But, in truth, I have not seen any woman, young or old, since I came here. Nor have I seen any human being save my mad master, Konar, and a poor youth whom I rescued some time ago from the hands of robbers. He has nursed me through a severe illness, and is even now with me. But what makes you think that Branwen intended to come to the Swamp?" "Because because, she had reasons of her own.
Bran invades Ireland, to avenge one of 'the three unhappy blows of this island, the daily striking of Branwen by her husband Matholwch, King of Ireland. Bran is mortally wounded by a poisoned dart, and only seven men of Britain, 'the Island of the Mighty, escape, among them Taliesin: 'And Bran commanded them that they should cut off his head.
Tell him, from myself, that I have at last fallen on the tracks of the lad Cormac, and that we are almost sure to find him in this neighbourhood. Away, and let not thy feet take root on the road." Before going off on his mission the Hebrew paid a visit to his own residence, where he found Branwen busy with culinary operations.
"Oh! don't shoot!" she cried, becoming suddenly and alarmingly aware of the action "don't shoot! It's me! I I'm a girl not a beast!" To make quite sure that the man understood her, Branwen jumped to the ground quickly and stood before him. Recovering himself, the man lowered his bow and said something in a dialect so uncouth, that the poor girl did not understand him.
"I've dreamt it, I suppose," she muttered, in a tone of regret; nevertheless, she listened. "Come in," said Beniah, evidently to some one outside of his door. "I may not enter I am a leper," answered the first voice; and Branwen sat up, with her great beautiful eyes opened to the utmost, and listening intently, though she could not make out clearly what was said. "It matters not; I have no fear.
"And take you my head," said he, "and bear it even unto the White Mount in London, and bury it there with the face towards France. And so long as it lies there, no enemy shall ever land on the island." So they cut off his head, and these seven went forward therewith. And Branwen was the eighth with them. And they came to land on Aber Alaw, and they sat down to rest.
Poor Branwen felt inclined to die on the spot at this cool assumption that she was to become a bandit's wife; but she succeeded in repressing all appearance of feeling as she rose, and, stretching up her arms, gave vent to a careless yawn. "I must go and have a ramble now," she said. "I'm tired of sitting so long."
But these festivities did not prevent him from taking an interest in the search that his father and the hunters were still making for Branwen. When many days had passed, however, and no word of her whereabouts was forthcoming, it was at last arranged that a message regarding her disappearance should be sent to her father's tribe by a party of warriors who were to be led by the prince himself.
It would have been a sight worth looking at had there been light to see it the vision of Branwen, as she stood in the passage in partial deshabille, with her eyes wide, her lips parted, her heart beating, and a wealth of auburn hair curling down her back, listening, as it were, with every power of her soul and body. But she could not hear distinctly.
As we have already told the reader all, we will not tell it over again, but leap at once to that point where the princess asked, at the close of the narrative, what her friend intended to do. "That," said Branwen with a perplexed look and a sigh, "is really more than I can tell you at present.
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