Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis
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Everyone at the table looked at the boy, and all recognized the lad at
once as the child of Powell and Rhiannon. "Here ends my trouble (pryderi)," cried out Rhiannon. Thereupon one of the chiefs said: "Well hast thou named thy child 'Trouble,'" and henceforth Pryderi was his name. Soon it was made known, by the vision and word of the bards and seers, that all the mischief had been wrought by wicked fairies, and that the six serving women had been under their spell, when they lied about the Queen. Powell, the castle-lord, was so happy that he offered the man of Co-ed rich gifts of horses, jewels and dogs. But this good man felt repaid in delivering a pure woman and loving mother from undeserved shame and disgrace, by wisdom and honesty according to common duty. As for Pryderi, he was educated as a king's son ought to be, in all gentle arts and was trained in all manly exercises. After his father died, Pryderi became ruler of the realm. He married Kieva the daughter of a powerful chieftain, who had a pedigree as long as the bridle used to drive a ten-horse chariot. It reached back to Prince Casnar of Britain. Pryderi had many adventures, which are told in the Mabinogian, which is the great storehouse of Welsh hero, wonder, and fairy tales. |
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