e is here a stag-hound bitch, and she has a litter of whelps.
Let us kill some of the cubs, and rub the blood on the face and hands of
Rhiannon, and lay the bones before her, and assert that she herself had
devoured her son, and she alone will not be able to gainsay us six." And
according to this counsel it wast settled. And towards morning Rhiannon
awoke, and she said, "Women, where is my son?" "Lady," said they, "ask
us not concerning thy son, we have nought but the blows and the bruises
we got by struggling with thee, and of a truth we never saw any woman so
violent as thou, for it was of no avail to contend with thee. Hast thou
not thyself devoured thy son? Claim him not therefore of us." "For
pity's sake," said Rhiannon; "The Lord God knows all things. Charge me
not falsely. {30} If you tell me this from fear, I assert before Heaven
that I will defend you." "Truly," said they, "we would not bring evil on
ourselves for any one in the world." "For pity's sake," said Rhiannon;
"you will receive no evil by telling the truth." But for all her words,
whether fair or harsh, {31a} she received but the same answer from the
women.

And Pwyll the chief of Annwvyn arose, and his household, and his hosts.
And this occurrence could not be concealed, but the story went forth
throughout the land, and all the nobles heard it. Then the nobles came
to Pwyll, and besought him to put away his wife, because of the great
{31b} crime which she had done. But Pwyll answered them, that they had
no cause wherefore they might ask him to put away his wife, save for her
having no children. "But children has she now had, therefore will I not
put her away, if she has done wrong, let her do penance for it."

So Rhiannon sent for the teachers and the wise men, and as she preferred
doing penance to contending with the women, she took upon her a penance.
And the penance that was imposed upon her was, that she should remain in
that palace of Narberth until the end of seven years, and that she should
sit every day near unto a horse-block that was without the gate. And
that she should relate the story to all who should come there, whom she
might suppose not to know it already; and that she should offer the
guests and strangers, if they would permit her, to carry them upon her
back into the palace. But it rarely happened that any would permit. And
thus did she spend part of the year.

Now at that time Teirnyon Twryv Vliant was Lord of Gw