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Updated: June 23, 2025
While the search was being thus diligently though needlessly prosecuted in the neighbourhood of the Hot Swamp by Gadarn, who was dearly fond of a practical joke, another chief, who was in no joking humour, paid a visit one evening to his mother. Perhaps it is unnecessary to say that this chief was Gunrig.
"Surely it was, old man, for my father's business is my business." "Yea, but it was not my business to enlighten you, or the king either, while I had reason to know that he meant unduly to coerce the maiden. However, there she was hidden, as I tell you. Now, you are aware that Branwen's father Gadarn is a great chief, whose people live far away in the northern part of Albion.
"I do not know what cracadailes be." "Efync?" "Ah! No, I do not tink there be efync dere. Hu Gadarn in de old time kill de efync dere and in all de lakes in Wales. He draw them out of the water with his ychain banog his humpty oxen, and when he get dem out he burn deir bodies on de fire, he good man for dat." "What do you call this allt?" said I, looking up to the high pinnacled hill on my right.
Many noted battles have been fought and described in this world, but few, if any, we should think, will compare with the famous battle of the Springs in the completeness of the victory. Coming out upon the flat which Gadarn had determined should be the battle-field, and to the left of which the hot springs that caused the swamp were flowing, Addedomar marshalled his men for the final assault.
"And he knows it?" cried Gadarn, interrupting and suppressing a laugh. "Yes; knows all about it." "And the other doesn't?" "Has not the remotest idea!" "Thinks that you're a " Here the chief broke off, got up, placed his hands on both his sides and roared with laughter, until the anxious sentinels outside believed that he had gone mad.
Gadarn, supposing that the attack would have been made earlier and in the dark, had left the bows of his force behind, intending to depend entirely on swords and clubs. But he found that the robbers were swift of foot and that terror lent wings, for they did not overtake them at once.
"That may be so; but I want to speak with your chief, and I must see him alone." "Assuredly thou art a saucy knave, and might be improved by a switching." "Possibly; but instead of wasting our time in useless talk, it would be well to convey my message to Gadarn, for my news is urgent; and I would not give much for your head if you delay."
O a truly great man was Hu Gadarn! though a warrior, he preferred the sickle and pruning hook to the sword, and the sound of the song and lute to the hoarse blast of the buffalo's horn: "The mighty Hu with mead would pay The bard for his melodious lay; The Emperor of land and sea And of all living things was he."
But they came out almost as fast as they went in yelling and spluttering for the water was much too hot! "Ah! I see now," growled the king, turning to Gadarn but Gadarn was gone. He found him, a minute later, behind a bush, in fits!
Some even came from the great western island called Erin, and others from the remote isle of the north which lay beyond Gadarn's country, and was at a later period named Ultima Thule. "I wonder when they're going to stop coming," remarked Gadarn to King Hudibras, as the self-invited guests came pouring in. "Let them come," replied the jovial king, with the air of a man of unlimited means.
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