Prawfddarllenwyd y dudalen hon
Dyfyn a enfyn Dofydd,[1]
Bloedd erchyll, rhingyll a'i rhydd:—
"Dowch y pydron[2] ddynionach,
Ynghyd, feirw byd, fawr a bach:
Dowch i'r farn a roir arnoch,
A dedwydd[3] beunydd y bo'ch."
Cyfyd[4] fal yd o fol âr
Gnwd tew eginhad daear;
A'r môr[5] a yrr o'r meirwon
Fil myrdd[6] uwch dyfnffyrdd y dòn:
Try allan ddynion trillu[7]—
Y sydd, y fydd, ac a fu,
Heb goll yn ddidwn hollol,
Heb un o naddun yn ol.
Y dorf[8] ar gyrch, dirfawr gad!
- ↑ Un o ddodenwau, neu ragenwau Duw, one of God's epithet, i.e., the Tamer.
- ↑ Pydron ddynionach is a most beautiful expression in the mouth it comes from, and carries an idea with it not to be expressed in other language.
- ↑ The charitable wish of the angel of a happy judgment puts him in a most lovely light.
- ↑ There is in Homer (Illiad B.) a simile not unlike this; and in Virgil, En. lib. 6.
- ↑ DAT. XX. 13.
- ↑ Myrdd is a myriad, or ten thousand; but it is used here for an undetermined number. Myrddiwn, in the plural myrddiynau, is a million, or ten hundred thousand.
- ↑ Llu is probably the ancient Celtic word from whence the Latin legio is derived, and the English legion, and in the plural is lluoedd, or lluon, vulgarly lion. Hence Caerllion ar Wysg, one of the cities of legions in Britain. The present, as well as the ancient meaning of the word llu, is an army of men (though here metaphorically used for a multitude), as appears by the book of Triades, "A llwyra lluydd a fu hwnw." Tr. Lluydd is the gatherer of an army, and Llewddyn Luyddawg is mentioned, in the same Triades, the name of a British Prince that had a vast army.
- ↑ Torf, and y dorf, is the ancient Celtic word for a multitude, from whence the Latin turma was borrowed; the root is twrf, which signifies noise, and the sound of thunder; and in some parts of South Wales thunder is called tyrfau, the plural of twrf. From the Latin turma, the provincial Brit ins formed the word tyrfa, which is now the common word for a multitude, or great meeting of people; if it is not formed from the word tyrru, to gather together.
