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The Mabinogion by Anonymous
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And the next day they came again to the palace, and they said, "Shoot
not at us any more, unless thou desirest such hurt, and harm, and
torture as thou now hast, and even more." "Give me thy daughter, and
if thou wilt not give her, thou shalt receive thy death because of
her." "Where is he that seeks my daughter? Come hither where I may
see thee." And they placed him a chair face to face with him.

Said Yspaddaden Penkawr, "Is it thou that seekest my daughter?" "It
is I," answered Kilhwch. "I must have thy pledge that thou wilt not
do towards me otherwise than is just, and when I have gotten that
which I shall name, my daughter thou shalt have." "I promise thee
that willingly," said Kilhwch, "name what thou wilt." "I will do
so," said he.

"Seest thou yonder vast hill?" "I see it." "I require that it be
rooted up, and that the grubbings be burned for manure on the face of
the land, and that it be ploughed and sown in one day, and in one day
that the grain ripen. And of that wheat I intend to make food and
liquor fit for the wedding of thee and my daughter. And all this I
require done in one day."

"It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest think
that it will not be easy."

"Though this be easy for thee, there is yet that which will not be
so. No husbandman can till or prepare this land, so wild is it,
except Amaethon the son of Don, and he will not come with thee by his
own free will, and thou wilt not be able to compel him."
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