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290:– each have their own qualities which they can bring to any encounter, but Arthur is a fighter in his own right, not just a commander. It has been suggested that Arthur himself has supernatural powers in the poem, specifically the ability to make himself and his men invisible, though this interpretation rests on a contested translation of a difficult line. The general tone of the poem can be seen as light-hearted. At the same time, Arthur's repeated use of the past tense in his boasts about his companions' exploits arguably give them an elegiac tone, suggesting the possibility that we should see the Arthur of the poem as a man past his glory years and living in the past with a sadly diminished following. 315:, where he is Arthur's gatekeeper, he similarly demands to know Culhwch's qualifications to be let in, and later in the tale the giant Wrnach Gawr's gatekeeper admits Cai after questioning him. There is no agreement as to the relationship between these three episodes, but it is possible that the author of 362:, where they fight Caius; and in an anonymous 15th-century English story, which tells us that Arthur vanquished some wildcats by tricking them into attacking their own reflections in his glass shield. This last stratagem doubtless explains why Cai's shield was polished when fighting the cat of Palug in 82:, and for alluding to several early adventures of Arthur which are now lost. Its precise age is not known and has been the subject of wide-ranging disagreement, but scholarly opinion now tends to favour a date of c. 1100. 168:
So mighty a warrior is Cai that his death can only be contrived by God himself. Cai and Llachau, we are told, "fulfilled battles". Cai attacked nine witches at the peak of Ystafngwn, and lions in
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is a folk-tale figure, a wandering hero leading a band of other heroes in an irresponsible life of adventures that pit them against monsters and magical adversaries, rather like the
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The subject now turns to Arthur himself, who is said to have fought against a witch in the hall of Afarnach, against a certain Pen Palach in the dwellings of Disethach, and against
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believed that the 9th century or even the 8th was possible. However, recent scholarly opinion has tended to favour a later date of around 1100.
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is in places a very difficult text, and translations of it vary widely. This summary is based on the version of Jon B. Coe and Simon Young (see
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and "the best men in the world". Glewlwyd demands Arthur vouch for them, so Arthur names his men and praises their exploits:
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duly identifies himself and returns the question, upon which Arthur names himself and says his party consists of
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The nine witches of the peak of Ystafngwn have reminded some commentators of the nine witches of Gloucester in
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Finally, the "lords of Emrys" referred to in the poem could be seen as relating to the character named in the
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texts presents great problems, even the linguistic criteria for dating them not having yet been agreed on.
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Arthur again praises at length Cai's prowess in battle, only to interrupt himself with the reflection that
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slew his enemies by the hundred, and he fought ferociously on the shores of Tryfrwyd.
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has suggested south-east Wales. He argues from certain similarities to, firstly, the
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poet need not necessarily have known either work: it has been pointed out that
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the gatekeeper Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr questions Arthur's right to be admitted; in
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Cath Palug, or the cat of Palug, with whom Cai fought, also appears in the
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in an oral tradition reported by the 14th-century Scottish chronicler
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subject and author, and secondly, an episode of the Welsh romance of
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went no further than saying that it was probably older than the
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figure in later French Arthurian romances, under the name
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tentatively narrowing that down to the 10th, though
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is notable for being one of the earliest vernacular
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Index


Black Book of Carmarthen
Black Book of Carmarthen
Old Welsh
King Arthur
Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr
Cai the Fair
Arthurian works
below
Arthur
Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr
Cai the Fair
Mabon son of Modron
Uthr Pendragon
Manawydan son of Llŷr
Tryfrwyd
Edinburgh
dog-heads
Bedwyr Perfect-Sinew
Anglesey
cat of Palug
Old Welsh
Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
Norman period
Rachel Bromwich
Brynley Roberts
John T. Koch
Patrick Sims-Williams
Sancti Cadocis
Llancarfan

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