LLONGBORTH OF LLYWARCH HEN'S ELEGY. 45 



implies tliat it was a drawn battle, In which all the Forces 

 of the contending parties were engaged : 



" Yn Llongborth gwelals drydar, 

 Ac elorawr yn ng^vyar, 

 A gvvyr rhudd rhag rliuthr esgar. 



" Yn Llongborth gwelais i vrithred 

 Gwyr ynghyd, a gwaed ar draed ; 

 ' A vo gwyr 1 Eraint, brysied !' 



" Yn Llongborth y Uas Geraint, 

 Gwr dewr o goettu' Dyvnaint, 

 Wyntwy yn lladd gyd a's Ueddaint. 



" Yn Llongborth lläs 1 Arthur 

 Gwyr dewr, cymmynynt a dur ; 

 Ammherawdyr, Uywiawdyr, llavur. 



" At Llongborth I witnessed the noisy tumult, 

 And biers with the dead drenched in göre, 

 And men blood-stained from the onset of the foe. 



" At Llongborth I saw the hurried nish, 



Of men with feet blood-stained, 



(Crying) ' Haste ! ye that be Geraint's men.' 

 " At Llongborth was Geraint slain, 



The bold warrior of the Woodlands of Dyvnaint, 



Slaughtering the foe as he feil. 



" At Llongborth was slain to Arthur, 

 Emperor and conductor of the toil of war, 

 Valorous men, who with steel hewed down (their foes.)" 



The site of this battle has been usually assigned to 

 Portsmouth. Dr. Owen Pugh, who published the elegy 

 with a translation, in 1792, represents Llongborth to be 

 " some harbour on the south coast, probably Portsmouth." 



