Then they mustered Gwynedd and set out for Ardudwy. Gwydion set out in the forefront and made for Mur Castell. Blodeuedd heard that they were coming and took her maidens and made for a court on the mountain. But through fear they could not proceed save with their faces looking backwards, and they fell into the lake, and were all drowned save she alone. And Gwydion overtook her too, and said to her: ÔI will not slay thee, I will let thee go in the form of a bird, and thou art never to show thy face in the light of day, and there will be enmity between thee and all birds.Õ
Blodeuwedd is ÔowlÕ in the language of this present day. And for that reason birds are hostile to the owl.
Gronw Bebyr made for Penllyn, and from there he sent envoys. The message he sent was to ask Lleu Llaw Gyffes whether he would take land or gold or silver for his injury. ÔI will not, by my confession to God,Õ said he. ÔAnd this is the least I will accept of him, that he go to the place where I was when he aimed at me with the spear, and I in the place where he was, and let me aim a spear at him.Õ
