Editing Cad Goddeu (section)

==Poem==
Some 248 short lines long (usually five syllables and a rest), and falling into several sections, the poem begins with an extended claim of first-hand knowledge of all things, in a fashion found later in the poem and also in several others attributed to [[Taliesin]];
{{Verse translation|
{{lang|cy|Bum cledyf yn aghat
Bum yscwyt yg kat
Bum tant yn telyn.}}
|
I was a sword in hand
I was a shield in battle
I was a string on a harp.}}

culminating in a claim to have been at "[[Caer]] Vevenir" when the Lord of Britain did battle. There follows an account of a great monstrous beast, of the fear of the Britons and how, by [[Gwydion]]'s skill and the grace of God, the trees marched to battle: then follows a list of plants, each with some outstanding attribute, now apt, now obscure;
{{Verse translation|
{{lang|cy|Gwern blaen llin,
A want gysseuin
Helyc a cherdin
Buant hwyr yr vydin.}}
|
Alder, front of the line,
formed the vanguard
Willow and Rowan
were late to the fray.}}

The poem then breaks into a first-person account of the birth of the flower-maiden [[Blodeuwedd]], and then the history of another one, a great warrior, once a herdsman, now a learned traveller, perhaps [[King Arthur|Arthur]] or Taliesin himself. After repeating an earlier reference to [[Genesis flood narrative|the Flood]], the [[Crucifixion of Jesus|Crucifixion]] and the [[Judgement Day|day of judgment]], the poem closes with an obscure reference to metalwork.