When a Host Went Up to Scandinavia
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An assisting force went with Yrp of the Hosts to Scandinavis. And that man came here during the time of Gadyal the Short to command a levy from this island. And none came with him save Mathwthafar his servant. And he asked this from the thirty chief fortresses that are on this island: that twice as many men as went with him to each of them should come away with him. And none came with him to the first fortress save himself and his servant. And this proved grievous to the men of this island. And they granted this to him. And that was the greatest levy that ever departed this island. And with those men he conquered everywhere he went. And he remained where those men dwelt, namely the two islands near the Greek sea: namely Clas and Avena.
And the second went with Elen of the Hosts and Maxen Wledig to Scandinavia. And they never returned to this island.
And the third went with Caswallon son of Beli, and Gwenwynwyn and Gwnar sons of Lliaw son of Nwyfre and Arianrhod daughter of Beli their mother. And those men were derived from Erch and Heledd. And they went with Caswallon their uncle in pursuit of the men of Caesar from this island. The place where those men are is Gascony.
The number that went with each of those hosts: twenty-one thousand men. And these were the three silver hosts of the Island of Britain.
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Three Disgraced men of the Island of Britain
One of them: Afarwy son of Lludd son of Beli. It was he who first summoned Julius Caesar and the men of Rome to this island and who caused the payment of three thousand pounds in money every year as tribute from this island to the men of Rome because of a dispute with Caswallon his uncle.
And the second is Gwrtheyrn the thin who first gave lands to the Saxons in this island and was the first to parlay with them and caused the death of Custennin the Young, son of Custennin the Blessed by his treachery and exiled the two brothers Emrys Wledig and Uthur Penndragon from this island to Brittany and by deceit took the crown and the kingship into his own posession. And in the end Uthur and Emrys burnt Gwrtheyrn in Gwrtheyrn's Fortress ad the banks of the Wye in a single conflagration to avenge their brother.
Third, and worst, was Medrawd when Arthur left the governance of Britain to him when he, himself, crossed the sea to oppose Lles, Emperor of Rome, who dispatched messengers to Arthur at Caerleon to demand tribute to him and the men of Rome from this island in the measure that it was paid [from the time of] Caswallon son of Beli until the age of Custennin the Blessed, Arthur's grandfather. This answer Arthur gave to the Emperor's emissaries: that the men of Rome had no greater claim to tribute from the men of the island of Britain than the men of the Island of Britain had from them. For Brân son of Dyfynwal and Custennin son of Elen had been emperors in Rome and they were both men of this island. And then Arthur mustered his chosen men and [brought them] across the sea to face the emperor. And they met beyond mount Mynneu and an untold number on each side were slain that day. And in the end Arthur faced the emperor and Arthur slew him. And there Arthur's chosen men were slain.When Medrawd heard that Arthur's host were scattered he turned against Arthur and the Saxons, Picts and Scots united with him to told this island against Arthur. And when Arthur heard this he rreturned with all that had survived of his host and by violence against Medrawd he succeeded in landing on this island. And then there was the battle of Camlan between Arthur and Medrawd and Arthur slew Maedrawd and Arthur was mortally wounded. And from this [injury] did he die. And in a palace on the Isle of Afallach was he buried.
