A Year and a Day

It was agreed in a day and a year That Pwyll should return to fight without fear. For a year and one day, they swapped places, Their form, spirit and looks they exchanged, they did; No soul could tell, nor those who knew their faces. But how would Pwyll know Havgan, Arawn’s foe, ‘The date is fixed, a year tonight, we meet’ The King explained ‘as me, you, he will know! One swipe of sword, will bring Havgan’s defeat And if he should ask for more, do not hear Just one swipe you need, do not hear his bid For if you should deliver one more blow His power to fight returns; replaces.’ Said the King ‘When it’s done as friends we’ll meet.’