Soon after she had sent her baby away the queen became much worse , and at length , seeing that she was going to die , she called her husband to her and said : ` Never again shall I rise from this bed , and by and bye thou wilt take another wife . But lest she should make thee forget thy son , I charge thee that thou take not a wife until thou see a briar with two blossoms upon my grave . ' And this he promised her . Then she further bade him to see to her grave that nothing might grow thereon . This likewise he promised her , and soon she died , and for seven years the king sent a man every morning to see that nothing was growing on the queen 's grave , but at the end of seven years he forgot . One day when the king was out hunting he rode past the place where the queen lay buried , and there he saw a briar growing with two blossoms on it . ` It is time that I took a wife , ' said he , and after long looking he found one . But he did not tell her about his son ; indeed he hardly remembered that he had one till she heard it at last from an old woman whom she had gone to visit . And the new queen was very pleased , and sent messengers to fetch the boy , and in his father 's court he stayed , while the years went by till one day the queen told him that a prophecy had foretold that he was to win for his wife Olwen the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr . When he heard this Kilweh felt proud and happy . Surely he must be a man now , he thought , or there would be no talk of a wife for him , and his mind dwelt all day upon his promised bride , and what she would be like when he beheld her . ` What aileth thee , my son ? ' asked his father at last , when Kilweh had forgotten something he had been bidden to do , and Kilweh blushed red as he answered : ` My stepmother says that none but Olwen , the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr , shall be my wife . ' ` That will be easily fulfilled , ' replied his father . ` Arthur the king is thy cousin . Go therefore unto him and beg him to cut thy hair , and to grant thee this boon . ' Then the youth pricked forth upon a dapple grey horse of four years old , with a bridle of linked gold , and gold upon his saddle . In his hand he bore two spears of silver with heads of steel ; a war-horn of ivory was slung round his shoulder , and by his side hung a golden sword . Before him were two brindled white-breasted greyhounds with collars of rubies round their necks , and the one that was on the left side bounded across to the right side , and the one on the right to the left , and like two sea-swallows sported round him . And his horse cast up four sods with his four hoofs , like four swallows in the air about his head , now above , now below .
About him was a robe of purple , and an apple of gold was at each corner , and every one of the apples was XXXXX the value of a hundred cows .
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