Ciw-restr

Woman of Flowers, Blodeuwedd

Llinellau gan Gwydion (Cyfanswm: 91)

 
(1, 0) 22 Quiet with your prattle and self pity.
 
(1, 0) 27 You dare say that – you who have been granted the greatest friendship of all.
(1, 0) 28 You, a bastard baby thrown out of the door almost before you'd drawn breath, when you were as helpless as some frail birdchick nudging through its shell.
(1, 0) 29 You who had three most callous fates placed upon you – yet I undid each one.
(1, 0) 30 Did I not give you a name?
(1, 0) 31 Did I not arm you?
(1, 0) 32 And then created for you the most magical wife, and get for you the fairest lands in Math's own kingdom.
(1, 0) 33 Shame on you!
 
(1, 0) 35 No.
(1, 0) 36 Yet no one's been more badly rewarded for friendship than me.
(1, 0) 37 There was my brother Gilfaethwy.
(1, 0) 38 I had to live among the wild animals for years because of him, not knowing my place in the world, one day male, the next female, creating a freakish family.
(1, 0) 39 And now you.
(1, 0) 40 Who knows what misfortunes you'll bring upon me.
(1, 0) 41 You whose own mother would have destroyed you had I not intervened.
 
(1, 0) 43 How is that?
(1, 0) 44 Every ruse of hers was thwarted.
(1, 0) 45 When she denied you a name, I construed your naming.
(1, 0) 46 She decreed that you shall not carry weapons, I tricked her into arming you with her own
(1, 0) 47 hands.
(1, 0) 48 She destined that you may never find a wife born of man, I spun for you from wild flowers a maiden better than an eye has seen.
 
(1, 0) 51 Indeed.
(1, 0) 52 In all my great span of spell making I've loved many a girl and beast – and never yet did I find one woman to be like another.
 
(1, 0) 54 You're lucky. The last child I had... was a wolf.
 
(1, 0) 67 The same old story.
(1, 0) 68 In these arms I've held a range of females, and believe me lad, on a warm spring morning it's the same feel to the softest girl's skin and a hog's hide.
 
(1, 0) 82 You can't cleave a creature from its kindred.
 
(1, 0) 96 Here's Blodeuwedd
 
(1, 0) 120 Your question conceals some deviousness.
 
(1, 0) 125 I'll tell you this, my girl.
(1, 0) 126 No one ever set eyes on beauty such as yours.
(1, 0) 127 You are the masterpiece of all my magic.
 
(1, 0) 131 The only favour, my niece?
 
(1, 0) 133 Then you have been a fool to yourself, Blodeuwedd.
(1, 0) 134 You should have tutored him in your demands,
(1, 0) 135 Wearing him down with a thousand fancies.
(1, 0) 136 That's how men succumb.
(1, 0) 137 Then their fatigue yields favour after favour.
 
(1, 0) 146 Ssh. Don't talk about that – it shames me.
 
(1, 0) 157 Farewell lady. I am an old man.
(1, 0) 158 You'd soon tire of my company.
(1, 0) 159 The heady smells of spring surround you still,
(1, 0) 160 The blooms I beaded to form your features
(1, 0) 161 Have not withered.
(1, 0) 162 Stay young, forever.
(1, 0) 163 Farewell.
 
(3, 0) 1209 Is this where you fell, my child.
(3, 0) 1210 Like a smitten eagle? Let me gather you to me.
(3, 0) 1211 His heart has stopped beating. You evil woman!
(3, 0) 1212 Let's carry him, carefully men, to the woods,
(3, 0) 1213 And lay him under the oak's shade. All my arts
(3, 0) 1214 Shall fight with death itself for his being.
(3, 0) 1215 Now, slowly, gently.... Quietly.
 
(4, 0) 1542 Walking through an open door as if to a banquet
(4, 0) 1543 And the young couple awaiting us with their welcome.
 
(4, 0) 1550 And here's the handsome heir, a son of Gronw Hir,
(4, 0) 1551 But now without followers, a captive, no spear to hand.
 
(4, 0) 1555 That's true nephew. I knew his father,
(4, 0) 1556 And the fortress at the lake's edge. Untie him,
(4, 0) 1557 We must respect the wishes of a man condemned to die.
 
(4, 0) 1577 This afternoon, we'll go together, the three of us
(4, 0) 1578 To the river Cynfael, to the goat's watering place.
(4, 0) 1579 He shall stand where you stood
(4, 0) 1580 At the front of the trough – and you where he was.
(4, 0) 1581 You'll strike him in his back, as he struck you
(4, 0) 1582 But this time there'll be no laughter, and no physician.
 
(4, 0) 1592 Your husband's already tasted your poison.
 
(4, 0) 1595 Rhagnell is back already. There she is.
 
(4, 0) 1598 We found her body in the river near the goat trough.
 
(4, 0) 1603 I told you. We didn't drown her.
 
(4, 0) 1606 As befits a wise servant, she pre-empted
(4, 0) 1607 Her punishment.
 
(4, 0) 1609 Poison, treachery, mayhem, luring a husband to his death.
(4, 0) 1610 Some such little details that are not to everyone's taste.
 
(4, 0) 1612 I'm not saying that. Your sort is one of many,
 
(4, 0) 1637 Is it a violation to ask a wife
(4, 0) 1638 To bear her husband a son?
 
(4, 0) 1654 Do you say that? I don't believe it!
 
(4, 0) 1696 Yes, my niece.
(4, 0) 1697 But listen before you go. In the woodland
(4, 0) 1698 There's a bird which is fearsome, like you.
(4, 0) 1699 And like you, loves the night. Its shriek
(4, 0) 1700 Like your laughter, is an omen of death.
(4, 0) 1701 Between it and the other birds there is hatred.
(4, 0) 1702 Your sojourn among men was not happy.
(4, 0) 1703 Go to the darkness, to the company of owls,
(4, 0) 1704 To the rites of the moon and the hollow trees.
(4, 0) 1705 Now as you cross this threshold,
(4, 0) 1706 And blink from the sun, your mocking laugh
(4, 0) 1707 Shall become an owl's shriek, and never again
(4, 0) 1708 In daylight will you show your face.