He was much delighted with the beauty of the gold andthe rich workmanship of the bowl and went up to lay hold of it. The momenthe touched it, his fingers clung to the bowl, and his feet to the slab;and all his joyousness forsook him so that he could not utter a word. Andthus he stood.Manawydan waited for him until evening, but hearing nothing either of himor of the dogs, he returned home. When he entered, Rhiannon, who was hiswife and who was also Pryderi's mother, looked at him. "Where," she said,"are Pryderi and the dogs?" "This is what has happened to me," he said;and he told her. "An evil companion hast thou been," she said, "and a goodcompanion hast thou lost." With these words she went out and proceededtowards the Castle of the Active Door. Getting in, she saw Pryderi takinghold of the bowl, and she went towards him. "What dost thou here?" shesaid, and she took hold of the bowl for herself; and then her hands becamefast to it, and her feet to the slab, and she could not speak a word. Thencame thunder and a fall of mist; thereupon the Castle of the Active Doorvanished and never was seen again. Rhiannon and Pryderi also vanished.When Kigva, the wife of Pryderi, saw this, she sorrowed so that she carednot if she lived or died. No one was left on the island but Manawydan andherself. They wandered away to other lands and sought to earn theirliving; then they came back to their island, bringing with them one bag ofwheat which they planted.
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