The Prediction of Kadwaladr
Book of Taliesin 57

The knight of the swift bay horse
with the double face, creates turmoil:
With treachery afoot, a blessing his
death and burial in Snowdonia.
When our war-lord comes he will make,
in a mead in Prydein, a chief place.
His manifest life will invigorate morals:
and his confines will be to us an Eden.
There will come, thither,
A Saxon seeking hospitality.
Grief he will know; from excess
of presumption, he will sin
The yoking of a wife by a vassal
will renew old hatred: he will
know grief: from presumption
comes contempt; he commits treason.
Did you see my friend
playing with my spouce?
I saw a slim corse,
and crows full of activity.
But the catastrophe lacks the prostrate form
of the sword-stroke.
And beyond the bank of...

ac am lan.

[here the manuscript ends.]

SOURCE
Poems from the Book of Taliesin. ed. and trans. by J. Gwenogvryn Evans. Series of Welsh Texts. Llanbedrog, N. Wales. 1915.