“One I have loved, uneluding, dearly possessed,
Two I have wooed, by greater praise be they blessed –
Three, yea, and four, with fortune lavish of gold,
Five maidens I've won their white flesh fair to behold,
And six more bright than the sun on my city's strong walls
With never a treacherous rede to blemish delight;
Seven by heaven! though hardly won was the fight –
Yea eight of whom I have sung: but to bridle the tongue
Lest heedless a careless word slip – the teeth they are strong!”
Keueisy vun dunn diwyrnawd;
keueisy dwy, handid mwy eu molawd;
keueisy deir a pheddir a phawd;
keueisy bymp o rei gwymp eu gwyngnawd;
keueisy chwech heb odech pechawd;
gwen glaer uch gwengaer yt ym daerhawd;
keueisy sseith ac ef gweith gordygnawd;
keueisy wyth yn hal pwyth peth or wawd yr geint;
ys da deint rac tauaed.
"Gorhoffedd" (The Boast), line 75; translation from Robert Gurney Bardic Heritage (London: Chatto & Windus, 1969) p. 41.
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Keueisy vun dunn diwyrnawd;<br/>keueisy dwy, handid mwy eu molawd;<br/>keueisy deir a pheddir a phawd;<br/>keueisy bymp o rei gwymp eu gwyngnawd;<br/>keueisy chwech heb odech pechawd;<br/>gwen glaer uch gwengaer yt ym daerhawd;<br/>keueisy sseith ac ef gweith gordygnawd;<br/>keueisy wyth yn hal pwyth peth or wawd yr geint;<br/>ys da deint rac tauaed.
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