befallen them, as if all had happened in that very spot; and especially of
the fate of their lord. And because of their perturbation they could not
rest, but journeyed forth with the head towards London. And they buried
the head in the White Mount.

The island called Gwales is supposed to be that now named Gresholm, eight
or ten miles off the coast of Pembrokeshire; and to this day the Welsh
sailors on that coast talk of the Green Meadows of Enchantment lying out
at sea west of them, and of men who had either landed on them or seen them
suddenly vanishing. Some of the people of Milford used to declare that
they could sometimes see the Green Islands of the fairies quite
distinctly; and they believed that the fairies went to and fro between
their islands and the shore through a subterranean gallery under the sea.
They used, indeed, to make purchases in the markets of Milford or
Langhorne, and this they did sometimes without being seen and always
without speaking, for they seemed to know the prices of the things they
wished to buy and always laid down the exact sum of money needed. And
indeed, how could the seven companions of the Enchanted Head have spent
eighty years of incessant feasting on an island of the sea, without
sometimes purchasing supplies from the mainland?



VI

THE CASTLE OF THE ACTIVE DOOR

Perfect is my chair in Caer Sidi;
Plague and age hurt not who's in it--
They know, Manawydan and Pryderi.