And had she not
been pregnant thou wouldst not have been able to overtake her, but since
this has taken place and she has been caught, I will restore thee Pryderi
and Rhiannon; and I will take the charm and illusion from off Dyved. I
have now told thee who she is. Set her therefore free." "I will not set
her free, by Heaven," said he. "What wilt thou more?" he asked. "I will
that there be no more charm upon the seven Cantrevs of Dyved, and that
none shall be put upon it henceforth." "This thou shalt have," said he.
"Now set her free." "I will not by my faith," he answered. "What wilt
thou furthermore," asked he. "Behold," said he, "this will I have; that
vengeance be never taken for this, either upon Pryderi or Rhiannon, or
upon me." "All this shalt thou have. And truly thou hast done wisely in
asking this. Upon thy head would have lit all this trouble." "Yea,"
said he, "for fear thereof was it, that I required this." "Set now my
wife at liberty." "I will not, by Heaven," said he, "until I see Pryderi
and Rhiannon with me free." "Behold, here they come," he answered.

And thereupon behold Pryderi and Rhiannon. And he rose up to meet them,
and greeted them, and sat down beside them. "Ah chieftain, set now my
wife at liberty," said the bishop. "Hast thou not received all thou
didst ask?" "I will release her gladly," said he. And thereupon he set
her free.

Then he struck her with a magic wand, and she was changed back into a
young woman, the fairest ever seen.

"Look around upon thy land," said he, "and then thou wilt see it all
tilled and peopled, as it was in its best state." And he rose up and
looked forth. And when he looked he saw all the lands tilled, and full
of herds and dwellings. "What bondage," he enquired, "has there been
upon Pryderi and Rhiannon?" "Pryderi has had the knockers of the gate of
my palace about his neck, and Rhiannon has had the collars of the asses,
after they have been carrying hay, about her neck."

And such had been their bondage.

And by reason of this bondage is this story called the Mabinogi of
Mynnweir and Mynord. {79}

And thus ends this portion of the Mabinogi.

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MATH THE SON OF MATHONWY.

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Math the son of Mathonwy was lord over Gwynedd, and Pryderi the son of
Pwyll was lord over the one and twenty Cantrevs of the South; and these
were the seven Cantrevs of Dyved, and the seven Cantrevs of Morganwc, the