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Rh into the not very similar form of Gawain, having first been Latinized into Walganos and Walweyn. In the Triads, he if mentioned in the following manner:—

"There were three golden-tongaed Knights in the Court of Arthur: Gwalchmai the son of Gwyar; Drudwas the son of Tryffin, and Eliwlod the son of Madog ap TJthur. For there was neither King, nor Earl, nor Lord, to whom these came, but would listen to them before all others; and whatever request they made, it would be granted them, whether willingly or unwillingly; and thence were they called the Golden Tongued."

As a proof of the high estimation in which Gwalchmai's powers of persuasion were held, the following translation from the Myvyrian Archaiology (L 178) may be adduced:—

HERE ARE ENGLYNS

Between Tiystan the son of Tallwch, and Gwalchmai the son of Gwyar, after Trystan had been absent three years from Arthur*s Court, in displeasure, and Arthur had sent eight-and-twenty warriors to seize him, and bring him to Arthur, and Trystan smote them all down, one after another, and came not for any one, but for Gwalchmai with the Golden Tongue.

GWALCHMAI. Tumultuous is the nature of the wave.

When the sea is at its height.—

Who art thou, mysterious warrior?

TRYSTAN. Tumultuous are the waves and the thunder.

In their bursting forth let them be tumultuous.

In the day of conflict I am Trystan.

GWALCHMAI. Trystan of the faultless speech.

Who, in the day of battle, would not retreat,

A companion of thine was Gwalchmai.

TRYSTAN. I would do for Gwalchmai in that day,

In the which the work of slaughter is let loose,

That which one brother would not do for another.