fill the bag, but for all that they put into it, it was no fuller
than at first. "My soul," said Gwawl, "will thy bag be ever full?"
"It will not, I declare to Heaven," said he, "for all that may be put
into it, unless one possessed of lands, and domains, and treasure,
shall arise and tread down with both his feet the food that is within
the bag, and shall say, 'Enough has been put therein.'" Then said
Rhiannon unto Gwawl the son of Clud, "Rise up quickly." "I will
willingly arise," said he. So he rose up, and put his two feet into
the bag. And Pwyll turned up the sides of the bag, so that Gwawl was
over his head in it. And he shut it up quickly and slipped a knot
upon the thongs, and blew his horn. And thereupon behold his
household came down upon the palace. And they seized all the host
that had come with Gwawl, and cast them into his own prison. And
Pwyll threw off his rags, and his old shoes, and his tattered array;
and as they came in, every one of Pwyll's knights struck a blow upon
the bag, and asked, "What is here?" "A Badger," said they. And in
this manner they played, each of them striking the bag, either with
his foot or with a staff. And thus played they with the bag. Every
one as he came in asked, "What game are you playing at thus?" "The
game of Badger in the Bag," said they. And then was the game of
Badger in the Bag first played.

"Lord," said the man in the bag, "if thou wouldest but hear me, I
merit not to be slain in a bag." Said Heveydd Hen, "Lord, he speaks
truth. It were fitting that thou listen to him, for he deserves not
this." "Verily," said Pwyll, "I will do thy counsel concerning him."
"Behold this is my counsel then," said Rhiannon; "thou art now in a
position in which it behoves thee to satisfy suitors and minstrels;
let him give unto them in thy stead, and take a pledge from him that
he will never seek to revenge that which has been done to him. And