Cador

Layamon's Brut

• attestation: Were it better for us, that we were not born. But cause we the trumpets to be blown, and our army to assemble. (Layamon's Brut)

  "then were it better for us, that we were not born."

• attestation: Cause we the trumpets to be blown, and our army to assemble. (Layamon's Brut)

  "But cause we the trumpets to be blown, and our army to assemble;"

• attestation: Cador the brave shall bear the king's standard; heave high the Dragon before this people, and march to the castle, with our keen folk. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and Cador the brave shall bear the king's standard;"

• attestation: Heave high the Dragon before this people, and march to the castle, with our keen folk. And the Earl Aldolf shall be our chief, and we shall obey him, as if he were the king. (Layamon's Brut)

  "heave high the Dragon before this people, and march to the castle, with our keen folk."

• attestation: They weened to shove the strong ships from the land. The churls with their bats were there within, the bats they up heaved, and adown right swung, there was soon slain many a knight with their clubs. (Layamon's Brut)

  "they weened to shove the strong ships from the land."

• attestation: The churls with their bats were there within, the bats they up heaved, and adown right swung, there was soon slain many a knight with their clubs. (Layamon's Brut)

  "The churls with their bats were there within, the bats they up heaved, and adown right swung, there was soon slain many a knight with their clubs;"

• attestation: Cador engaged in combat (Layamon's Brut)

  "with their pitch-forks they felled them to ground, and Cador and his knights slew them behind."

• attestation: Cador saw, how it then fared there, that the kaiser fled, and toward the hill retreated, and Cador pursued after him, as speedily as he might, and came up to him, and overtook him soon. Then said Cador, the earl most keen: "Abide, abide, Childric! (Layamon's Brut)

  "Then Cador saw, how it then fared there, that the kaiser fled, and toward the hill retreated, and Cador pursued after him, as speedily as he might, and came up to him, and overtook him soon."

• attestation: Great was the bliss that then was in the burgh! The Scots were in Moray, and there thought to dwell, and with their bold words made their boast, and said that they would rule the realm, and Arthur there abide, with bold strength, for Arthur durst never for his life come there. (Layamon's Brut)

  "great was the bliss that then was in the burgh!"

• attestation: From thence he marched to Cornwall, to Cador's territory;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "From thence he marched to Cornwall, to Cador's territory;"

• attestation: He found there a maid extremely fair. This maiden's mother was of Romanish men, Cador's relative. (Layamon's Brut)

  "he found there a maid extremely fair."

• attestation: This maiden's mother was of Romanish men, Cador's relative;. (Layamon's Brut)

  "This maiden's mother was of Romanish men, Cador's relative;"

• attestation: Cador gave or bestowed something (Layamon's Brut)

  "and the maid Cador on him bestowed, and he received her fair, and softly her fed."

• attestation: Many was the fair man that followed the king. Of Moray King Urien, and his fair son Ywam. (Layamon's Brut)

  "many was the fair man that followed the king."

• attestation: Of Moray King Urien, and his fair son Ywam; Stater, King of South Wales, and Cadwal, the King of North Wales. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Of Moray King Urien, and his fair son Ywam;"

• attestation: Stater, King of South Wales, and Cadwal, the King of North Wales. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Stater, King of South Wales, and Cadwal, the King of North Wales;"

• attestation: Cador, Earl of Cornwall, whom the king loved. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Cador, Earl of Cornwall, whom the king loved;"

• attestation: Gurguint, Earl of Hereford, and Beof, Earl of Oxford. (Layamon's Brut)

  "Gurguint, Earl of Hereford, and Beof, Earl of Oxford;"

• attestation: There walked four kings before the kaiser; they bare in their hands four swords of gold. (Layamon's Brut)

  "There walked four kings before the kaiser;"

• attestation: They bare in their hands four swords of gold. Thus hight the one, who was a most doughty man, that was Cador the king, Arthur's darling. (Layamon's Brut)

  "they bare in their hands four swords of gold."

• attestation: The King of North Wales and the King of South Wales. (Layamon's Brut)

  "and the King of North Wales and the King of South Wales."

• attestation: Thus they gan lead the king to church; the bishops gan sing before the monarch, trumpets there blew. (Layamon's Brut)

  "And thus they gan lead the king to church;"

• attestation: The bishops gan sing before the monarch, trumpets there blew; bells there rung. (Layamon's Brut)

  "the bishops gan sing before the monarch, trumpets there blew;"