Montgomeryshire.

{18d} I know not where this country is.

{18e} Some lines are wanting in the original.

{19a} Knocking, I suppose, is somewhere near Offa's ditch.

{19b} Porth Ysgewin is near Chepstow, in Monmouthshire or
Glamorganshire.

{19c} Taliesin Ben Beirdd, or the chief of Bards, flourished about the
year 560, or thereabout, under Maelgwn Gwynedd king of Britain, called by
Gildas Maglocunus. Many of Taliesin's poems are extant, but on account
of their great antiquity are very obscure, as the work of his
contemporaries are. There is a great deal of the Druidical Cabbala
intermixed in his works, especially about the transmigration of souls.

{20a} Rheidol is the name of a large river in Cardiganshire, and
Glasgrug, one of the palaces of the princes of South Wales, is very near
it, about a measured mile from Aberystwith, and at present the property
of the Rev. Mr. William Powel, of Nanteos.

{20b} Lleision was one of the palaces of the princes of Powys, corruptly
now called Llysin; and the park about it is called Llysin-park, the
patrimony of Lord Powys.

{21a} The battle of Llwyvein was fought by Urien Reged and his son
Owain, against Ida king of the Northumbrians. It is celebrated by
Taliesin in a poem, entitled Gwaith Argoed Llwyvein, i.e. the battle of
Argoed Llwyvein.

{21b} Eurgain, Northop in Flintshire, so called from Eurgain, the
daughter of Maelgwn Gwynedd.

{21c} Demetia. This expedition of Llewelyn-ap-Iorwerth was against the
Flemings and Normans, of which there is an account in Powel's History of
Wales, p. 277, 278.

{22a} Llan Huadain, the name of a place in Pembrokeshire.

{22b} Cilgeran, the name of another place in the same county, near the
river Teivi.

{22c} Llywarch Hen, the son of Elidir Lydanwyn a nobleman of North
Britain, and cousin german to Urien Reged king of Cumbria; he was a great
warrior, and fought successful against the Saxons; but fortune at last
favouring the Saxons, he was obliged in his old age to retire to Wales.
He had twenty-four sons, who wore golden chains, and were all killed in
battles against the Saxons. Llywarch Hen was a noted Bard, his works are
extant, wherein he celebrates the noble feats of his sons, and bewails
his misfortunes, and the troubles of old age, especially in distress.

{22d} Tanad is the name of a river in Montgomeryshire, which emptieth
itself into the Severn.

{22e} Nudd Hael, or the Generous, was a nobleman o