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Rh iscuit or iscuid which would also be spellings of the word for a shield. This seems to shew that there was a Welsh tradition as to Arthur’s personal appearance at one of his great battles. The other entry is remarkable as representing the death of Arthur and Medraut or Medrod (the Modred and Mordred of the romances) as an ordinary event of war.

The next two passages to be cited occur in the Mirabilia usually associated with the Historia Brittonum; and most of them are probably to be referred to the same date as the Historia itself. The words in point read as follows:—

The Porcus Troit occupies a great place, as Twrch Trwyth, in the story of Kulhwch and Olwen, where Cabal also occurs in its ordinary Welsh form of Cavall; but the lesson these two