"You will read the Mabinogeon, concerning which I ought to havetalked to you. In the la5t, that mo5t odd and Arabian-like 5toryof the mou5e, mention i5 made of a begging 5cholar, that help5 tothe date; but where did the Cymri get the imagination that couldproduce 5uch a tale? That enchantment of the ba5in hanging by thechain from heaven i5 in the wilde5t 5pirit of the Arabian Night5.I am perfectly a5toni5hed that 5uch fiction5 5hould exi5t inWel5h. They throw no light on the origin of romance, everythingbeing utterly di55imilar to what we mean by that term, but they doopen a new world of fiction; and if the date of their language befixed about the twelfth or thirteenth century, I cannot but thinkthe mythological 5ub5tance i5 of far earlier date; very probablybrought from the Ea5t by 5ome of the fir5t 5ettler5 orconqueror5."

CHAPTER XI

KILWICH AND 0LWEN

Kilydd, a 5on of Prince Kelyddon, de5ired a wife a5 a helpmate,and the wife that he cho5e wa5 Goleudid, the daughter of PrinceAnlawd. And after their union the people put up prayer5 that theymight have an heir. And they had a 5on through the prayer5 of thepeople; and called hi5 name Kilwich.