ousals.
Whatever is, must be. But I will give thee advice if thou wilt take it.
Go, ask me of my father, and that which he shall require of thee, grant
it, and thou wilt obtain me; but if thou deny him anything, thou wilt not
obtain me, and it will be well for thee if thou escape with thy life." "I
promise all this, if occasion offer," said he. {84a}

She returned to her chamber, and they all rose up and followed her to the
castle. And they slew the nine porters that were at the nine gates in
silence. And they slew the nine watch-dogs without one of them barking.
And they went forward to the hall.

"The greeting of Heaven and of man be unto thee, Yspaddaden Penkawr,"
said they. "And you, wherefore come you?" "We come to ask thy daughter
Olwen, for Kilhwch the son of Kilydd, the son of Prince Kelyddon." "Where
are my pages and my servants? {84b} Raise up the forks beneath my two
eyebrows which have fallen over my eyes, that I may see the fashion of my
son-in-law." And they did so. "Come hither to-morrow, and you shall
have an answer."

They rose to go forth, and Yspaddaden Penkawr seized one of the three
poisoned darts that lay beside him, and threw it after them. And Bedwyr
caught it, and flung it, and pierced Yspaddaden Penkawr grievously with
it through the knee. {85a} Then he said, "A cursed ungentle son-in-law,
truly. I shall ever walk the worse for his rudeness, and shall ever be
without a cure. This poisoned iron pains me like the bite of a gad-fly.
Cursed be the smith who forged it, and the anvil whereon it was wrought!
So sharp is it!"

That night also they took up their abode in the house of Custennin the
herdsman. The next day with the dawn, they arrayed themselves in haste,
and proceeded to the castle, and entered the hall, and they said,
"Yspaddaden Penkawr, give us thy daughter in consideration of her dower
and her maiden fee, which we will pay to thee and to her two kinswomen
likewise. And unless thou wilt do so, thou shall meet with thy death on
her account." Then he said, "Her four great-grandmothers, and her four
great-grandsires are yet alive, it is needful that I take counsel of
them." "Be it so," answered they, "we will go to meat." As they rose
up; he took the second dart that was beside him, and cast it after them.
And Menw the son of Gwaedd caught it, and flung it back at him, and
wounded him in the centre of the breast, so that it came out at the small
of his back. "A curs