There was a court of Pryderi’s there, and in the guise of bards they came inside. They made them welcome. Gwydion was placed at Pryderi’s one hand that night.
«Why,» said Pryderi, «gladly would we have a tale from some of the young men yonder.»
«Lord,» said Gwydion, «it is a custom with us that the first night after one comes to a great man, the chief bard shall have the say. I will tell a tale gladly.»
Gwydion was the best teller of tales in the world. And that night he entertained the court with pleasant tales and story-telling till he was praised by every one in the court, and it was pleasure for Pryderi to converse with him.
From “Math son of Mathonwy”, the fourth branch of the Maginogi, in The Mabinogion, translated by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, revised edition, 1989, pp. 56-57
Illustration inspired by a rock painting from the Eastern Cape, South Africa
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