ofned" literally means
fearlessness.

{112c} In Maelderw's stanzas thus,--

"When all went up, thou didst go down."

In another place,--

"When all were extended, thou didst also fall."

{112d} The line in Gorchan Maelderw, Myv. Arch. vol. i. p. 62, has been
translated by Dr. W. O. Pughe,

"Present, ere he spoke, was carried with the arms." (Dict. _Voce_
Breichiawl.)

That in the other Gorchan of Maelderw, page 85, may be rendered,

Present narrates that he was carried with the arms.

{113a} Lit. "Three heroes and three score and three hundred, wearing the
golden torques."

{113b} If "ffosawd" ever bears the meaning assigned to it by Dr. Pughe,
it must have derived it from the practise of fighting in the _fosse_ of a
camp, (which would be peculiarly _gashing_) for on his own showing the
word has no other etymon than that of "ffos," a _ditch_, a _trench_.
From the same root Merddin gives it the sense of burial--defossio.

"A hyt vraut yth goffaaf
Dy _ffossaut_ trallaut trymmaf." (Myv. Arch. vol. i. p. 149.)

Until doom will I remember
Thy interment, which was a most heavy affliction.

Likewise Taliesin;--

"Hyd ydd aeth ef
Ercwlf mur _ffosawd_
As arnut tywawd." (Myv. Arch. i. p. 69.)

Until he, Ercwlf,
Descended into the fosse of the rampart,
And was covered with sand.

{114a} Their names are given in "Gwarchan Cynvelyn." (Myv. Arch. vol.
i. page 60. Davies's Mythology, page 622.)

Three warriors and three score and three hundred,
To the conflict of Cattraeth went forth;
Of those who hastened from the mead of the cup-bearers,
Three only returned,
Cynon and Cadreith, and Cadlew of Cadnant,
And I myself from the shedding of blood.--

{114b} The grave of Cynon is thus recorded;--

"Bet gur gwaud urtin
In uchel titin in isel gwelitin
Bet Cynon mab Clytno Idin."

The grave of a warrior of high renown
Is in a lofty region--but a lowly bed;
The grave of Cynon the son of Clydno Eiddin.

And in another stanza;

"Piau y bet y dann y brin
Bet gur gwrt yng Kiuiscin
Bet Kinon mab Clytno Idin."

Whose is the grave beneath the hill?
It is the grave of a warrior valiant in the conflict,--
The grave of Cynon the son of Clydno Eiddin. (Myv. Arch. vol. i. p.
79.)

A saying of Cadreith has been preserved in the Englynion y Clywed.

"A glyweisti a