thus did they, and they caused the boy to be baptized, and the
ceremony was performed there; and the name which they gave unto him
was Gwri Wallt Euryn, because what hair was upon his head was as
yellow as gold. And they had the boy nursed in the Court until he
was a year old. And before the year was over he could walk stoutly.
And he was larger than a boy of three years old, even one of great
growth and size. And the boy was nursed the second year, and then he
was as large as a child six years old. And before the end of the
fourth year, he would bribe the grooms to allow him to take the
horses to water. "My lord," said his wife unto Teirnyon, "where is
the colt which thou didst save on the night that thou didst find the
boy?" "I have commanded the grooms of the horses," said he, "that
they take care of him." "Would it not be well, lord," said she, "if
thou wert to cause him to be broken in, and given to the boy, seeing
that on the same night that thou didst find the boy, the colt was
foaled and thou didst save him?" "I will not oppose thee in this
matter," said Teirnyon. "I will allow thee to give him the colt."
"Lord," said she, "may Heaven reward thee; I will give it him." So
the horse was given to the boy. Then she went to the grooms and
those who tended the horses, and commanded them to be careful of the
horse, so that he might be broken in by the time that the boy could
ride him.

And while these things were going forward, they heard tidings of
Rhiannon and her punishment. And Teirnyon Twryv Vliant, by reason of
the pity that he felt on hearing this story of Rhiannon and her
punishment, inquired closely concerning it, until he had heard from
many of those who came to his court. Then did Teirnyon, often
lamenting the sad history, ponder within himself, and he looked
steadfastly on the boy, and as he looked upon him, it seemed to him