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It was the chief aim of Owen Gwynedd to be the ally of the Lord Rees; and in this he succeeded, though his brother Cadwaladr, in his desire for Ceredigion, had killed Rees' brother, to Owen's infinite sorrow. The princes of Powys, Madoc and Owen Cyveiliog, were in the same alliance also, and they were helped in their struggle with the Normans. Unity was never more necessary.
MYSELF. Is Waladr the same as Cadwaladr? LAD. In truth, sir, it is. MYSELF. That is a fine name. LAD. It is, sir; I have heard my father say that it was the name of a king. MYSELF. What is your father? LAD. A farmer, sir. MYSELF. Does he farm his own land? LAD. He does not, sir; he is tenant to Mr Price of Hiwlas. MYSELF. Do you live far from Bala? LAD. Not very far, sir.
It grows in secret in the Woods of Celyddon; In vain shall they seek it on the banks of its stream there, Till Cadwaladr shall come to Rhyd Theon, And Cynan, opposing the tumult of Saxons, Wales shall arise then; bright shall be her Dragon; All shall have their just reward; joy is me for the Brython! The horns of joy shall sound then the song of peace and calmness....
So God was angry with them, and one night, when they were all busy at singing and dancing and the like, God gave the word, and the city sank down into Unknown, and the lake boiled up where it once stood. MYSELF. That was a long time ago. LAD. In truth, sir, it was. MYSELF. Before the days of King Cadwaladr. LAD. I daresay it was, sir.
At Machynlleth, in 1402, Owen Glendower, after several brilliant victories over the English, held a parliament in a house which is yet to be seen in the Eastern Street, and was formally crowned King of Wales; in his retinue was the venerable bard Iolo Goch, who, imagining that he now saw the old prophecy fulfilled, namely, that a prince of the race of Cadwaladr should rule the Britons, after emancipating them from the Saxon yoke, greeted the chieftain with an ode, to the following effect:
The whole poem is exceedingly obscure; a hundred years ago, the wise men of Wales took it as meaning much what I think it means: the passing of the real wisdom of the Mysteries, of Neo-druidism, away from the world and the knowledge of men, to a secret place where the Woodmen, the Black-robed, could not find to destroy it; until, after ages, a Leader of the Hosts of Light should come you see it is here Cadwaladr, but Cadwaladr simply means 'Battle-Leader, and the age-old battle between light and darkness, Arthur and Modred, should be fought again, and this time won, and the Mysteries re-established.
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