And Pwyll the chief of Annwvyn arose, and his household, and his
hosts. And this occurrence could not be concealed, but the story
went forth throughout the land, and all the nobles heard it. Then
the nobles came to Pwyll, and besought him to put away his wife,
because of the great crime which she had done. But Pwyll answered
them, that they had no cause wherefore they might ask him to put away
his wife, save for her having no children. "But children has she now
had, therefore will I not put her away; if she has done wrong, let
her do penance for it."

So Rhiannon sent for the teachers and the wise men, and as she
preferred doing penance to contending with the women, she took upon
her a penance. And the penance that was imposed upon her was, that
she should remain in that palace of Narberth until the end of seven
years, and that she should sit every day near unto a horseblock that
was without the gate. And that she should relate the story to all
who should come there, whom she might suppose not to know it already;
and that she should offer the guests and strangers, if they would
permit her, to carry them upon her back into the palace. But it
rarely happened that any would permit. And thus did she spend part
of the year.

Now at that time Teirnyon Twryv Vliant was Lord of Gwent Is Coed, and
he was the best man in the world. And unto his house there belonged
a mare, than which neither mare nor horse in the kingdom was more
beautiful. And on the night of every first of May she foaled, and no
one ever knew what became of the colt. And one night Teirnyon talked
with his wife: "Wife," said he, "it is very simple of us that our
mare should foal every year, and that we should have none of her
colts." "What can be done in the matter?" said she. "This is the