bake the cakes for my daughter's wedding.'

'It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest deem it
will not be easy,' answered Kilweh, thinking of Ossol, under whose feet
the highest mountain became straightway a plain, but Yspaddaden paid no
heed, and continued:

'Seest thou that field yonder? When my daughter was born nine bushels of
flax were sown therein, and not one blade has sprung up. I require thee
to sow fresh flax in the ground that my daughter may wear a veil spun
from it on the day of her wedding.'

'It will be easy for me to compass this.'

'Though thou compass this there is that which thou wilt not compass. For
thou must bring me the basket of Gwyddneu Garanhir which will give meat
to the whole world. It is for thy wedding feast. Thou must also fetch me
the drinking-horn that is never empty, and the harp that never ceases to
play until it is bidden. Also the comb and scissors and razor that lie
between the two ears of Trwyth the boar, so that I may arrange my hair
for the wedding. And though thou get this yet there is that which thou
wilt not get, for Trwyth the boar will not let any man take from him the
comb and the scissors, unless Drudwyn the whelp hunt him. But no leash
in the world can hold Drudwyn save the leash of Cant Ewin, and no collar
will hold the leash except the collar of Canhastyr.'

'It will be easy for me to compass this, though thou mayest think it
will not be easy,' Kilweh answered him.

'Though thou get all these things yet there is that which thou wilt not
get. Throughout the world there is none that can hunt with this dog save
Mabon the son of Modron. He was taken from his mother when three nights
old, and it is not know where he now is, nor whether he is living or
dead, and though thou find him yet the boar will never be slain save
only with the sword of Gwrnach the giant, and if thou obtain it not
neither shalt thou obtain my daughter.'

'Horses shall I have, and knights from my lord Arthur. And I shall gain
thy daughter, and thou shalt lose thy life.'

The speech of Kilweh the son of Kilydd with Yspaddaden Penkawr was
ended.

Then Arthur's men set forth, and Kilweh with them, and journeyed till
they reached the largest castle in the world, and a black man came out
to meet them.

'Whence comest thou, O man?' asked they, 'and whose is that castle?'

'That is the castle of Gwrnach the giant, as all the world knows,'
answered the man, 'but no guest ever r