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In a little time I reached a bridge over a stream which seemed to carry a considerable tribute to the Teivi. "What is the name of this bridge?" said I to a man riding in a cart, whom I met almost immediately after I had crossed the bridge.
FARMER. The Teivi runs to the sea, which it enters at a place which the Cumri call Aber Teivi and the Saxons Cardigan. MYSELF. Don't you call Cardiganshire Shire Aber Teivi? FARMER. We do. MYSELF. Are there many gleisiaid in the Teivi? FARMER. Plenty, and salmons too that is, farther down.
Efforts were made to subject the four cantreds to the shire courts at Chester; and Geoffrey of Langley, Edward's agent in the south, set up shire-moots at Cardigan and Carmarthen, from which originated the first beginnings of those counties. The bitterest indignation animated Edward's Welsh tenants, whether on the Clwyd or on the Teivi and Towy.
I would give something, said I, to know whereabouts in this neighbourhood Ab Gwilym lies. That, however, is a secret that no one can reveal to me. At length I came to a yew-tree which stood just by the northern wall, which is at a slight distance from the Teivi. It was one of two trees, both of the same species, which stood in the churchyard, and appeared to be the oldest of the two.
After breakfast, according to my usual fashion, I took a stroll to see about. The town, which is very small, stands in a valley, near some wild hills called the Berwyn, like the range to the south of Llangollen. The stream, which runs through it and which falls into the Teivi at a little distance from the town, is called the Brennig, probably because it descends from the Berwyn hills.
The noble river Teivi springs from the Ellennith mountains, in the upper part of the Cantref Mawr and Caerdigan, not far from the pastures and excellent monastery of Stratflur, forming a boundary between Demetia and Caerdigan down to the Irish channel; this is the only river in Wales that produces beavers, an account of which is given in our Itinerary; and also exceeds every other river in the abundance and delicacy of its salmon.
After proceeding a mile up the lane, amidst trees and copses, and crossing a little brook, which runs into the Teivi, out of which I drank, I saw before me in the midst of a field, in which were tombstones and broken ruins, a rustic- looking church; a farm-house stood near it, in the garden of which stood the framework of a large gateway.
"My journey will not be evil, lord," said he; "I will not come back without the swine." "Gladly," said he, "go thou forward." So he and Gilvaethwy went, and ten other men with them. And they came into Ceredigiawn, to the place that is now called Rhuddlan Teivi, where the palace of Pryderi was.
The best place for salmon and gleisiaid is a place, a great way down the stream, called Dinas Emlyn. MYSELF. Do you know an animal called Llostlydan? FARMER. No, I do not know that beast. MYSELF. There used to be many in the Teivi. FARMER. What kind of beast is the Llostlydan? MYSELF. A beast with a broad tail, on which account the old Cumri did call him Llostlydan.
I went on sipping my ale and finding fault with its bitterness till I had finished it, when getting up I gave the old lady her groat, bade her farewell, and departed. Pont y Rhyd Fendigaid Strata Florida The Yew-Tree Idolatry The Teivi The Llostlydan. AND now for the resting-place of Dafydd Ab Gwilym!
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