possessions, as long as I am able to preserve my own. And when he
shall have power, he will more fitly maintain them than I. And if
this counsel be pleasing unto thee, and to my nobles, it shall be
that, as thou hast reared him up to the present time, I will give him
to be brought up by Pendaran Dyved, from henceforth. And you shall
be companions, and shall both be foster-fathers unto him." "This is
good counsel," said they all. So the boy was given to Pendaran
Dyved, and the nobles of the land were sent with him. And Teirnyon
Twryv Vliant, and his companions, set out for his country, and his
possessions, with love and gladness. And he went not without being
offered the fairest jewels and the fairest horses, and the choicest
dogs; but he would take none of them.

Thereupon they all remained in their own dominions. And Pryderi, the
son of Pwyll the Chief of Annwvyn, was brought up carefully as was
fit, so that he became the fairest youth, and the most comely, and
the best skilled in all good games, of any in the kingdom. And thus
passed years and years, until the end of Pwyll the Chief of Annwvyn's
life came, and he died.

And Pryderi ruled the seven Cantrevs of Dyved prosperously, and he
was beloved by his people, and by all around him. And at length he
added unto them the three Cantrevs of Ystrad Tywi, and the four
Cantrevs of Cardigan; and these were called the Seven Cantrevs of
Seissyllwch. And when he made this addition, Pryderi the son of
Pwyll the Chief of Annwvyn desired to take a wife. And the wife he
chose was Kicva, the daughter of Gwynn Gohoyw, the son of Gloyw Wallt
Lydan, the son of Prince Casnar, one of the nobles of this Island.

And thus ends this portion of the Mabinogion.