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Updated: June 27, 2025
'Shoot not at me again, said he, 'unless you desire death. But lift up my eyebrows, which have fallen over my eyes, that I may see my son-in-law. Then they arose, and as they did so Yspaddaden Penkawr took the third poisoned dart and cast it at them. And Kilwch caught it, and flung it back, and it passed through his eyeball, and came out on the other side of his head.
Then Arthur summoned his five best men and bade them go with Kilwch.
And the new queen was very pleased, and sent messengers to fetch the boy, and in his father's court he stayed, while the years went by till one day the queen told him that a prophecy had foretold that he was to win for his wife Olwen the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr. When he heard this Kilwch felt proud and happy.
'If walking thou didst enter here, return thou running, replied Arthur, 'and let every one that opens and shuts the eye show him respect and serve him, for it is not meet to keep such a man in the wind and rain. So Glewlwyd unbarred the gate and Kilwch rode in upon his charger. 'Greeting unto thee, O ruler of this land, cried he, 'and greeting no less to the lowest than to the highest.
Then Kilwch held out to him a ring of gold, and he tried to put it on his finger, but it was too small, so he placed it in his glove, and went home and gave it to his wife. 'Whence came this ring? asked she, 'for such good luck is not wont to befall thee.
She entered, and sat down on a bench beside Kilwch, and he spake to her: 'Ah, maiden, since first I heard thy name I have loved thee wilt thou not come away with me from this evil place? 'That I cannot do, answered she, 'for I have given my word to my father not to go without his knowledge, for his life will only last till I am betrothed. Whatever is, must be, but this counsel I will give you.
And I shall gain thy daughter, and thou shalt lose thy life. The speech of Kilwch the son of Kilydd with Yspaddaden Penkawr was ended. Then Arthur's men set forth, and Kilwch with them, and journeyed till they reached the largest castle in the world, and a black man came out to meet them. 'Whence comest thou, O man? asked they, 'and whose is that castle?
In the end all the marvels were done, and Kilwch set forward, and with him Goreu, the son of Custennin, to Yspaddaden Penkawr, bearing in their hands the razor, the scissors and the comb, and Yspaddaden Penkawr was shaved by Kaw. 'Is thy daughter mine now? asked Kilwch. 'She is thine, answered Yspaddaden, 'but it is Arthur and none other who has won her for thee.
Kilwch was quite happy with his nurse, and ran races and climbed hills with the children who were his playfellows, and in the winter, when the snow lay on the ground, sometimes a man with a harp would stop and beg for shelter, and in return would sing them songs of strange things that had happened in the years gone by. But long before this, changes had taken place in the court of Kilwch's father.
'It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest deem it will not be easy, answered Kilwch, thinking of Ossol, under whose feet the highest mountain became straightway a plain, but Yspaddaden paid no heed, and continued: 'Seest thou that field yonder? When my daughter was born nine bushels of flax were sown therein, and not one blade has sprung up.
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