the death of Medrawd at the Battle of Camlann until Arthur's final departure for Afallon. The poem, according to Hywel Teifi Edwards, "brought back some of the mythopoeic grandeur which John Morris-Jones yearned for. More than that, he made of Bedwyr, the knight charged by Arthur to throw the great sword Excalibur into the lake, a prototype of the twentieth-century Welshman who, from generation to generation, armed only with a vision of his culture's worth, fights for its survival against an all-devouring materialism. Bedwyr, agonizing over the catastrophe which he feared would befall his defenseless country should he obey Arthur's command, is one of the most deeply moving figures in Welsh literature. Denied the security of a matchless weapon, the last tangible proof of Arthur's supernatural strength, he must fight on with only his faith in Arthur's promised return from Afalon to sustain him." Unlike the many works of English, French, and German poetry inspired by the Arthurian legend, Ymadawiad Arthur makes frequent references to Welsh literature and the Welsh mythology of the Mabinogion, and is believed to derive its narrative flow from Jones's careful study of that same source. William Beynon Davies further considers Ymadawiad Arthur a work of subtly Christian poetry based on its many Biblical parallels, as King Arthur resembles in some ways the Messiah and in others the Suffering Servant. The poem won its author the Bardic Chair at the National Eisteddfod in 1902. J.R.R. Tolkien's epic poem The Fall of Arthur, written in alliterative verse and left unfinished at the time of Tolkien's death in 1973, depicts King Arthur as a Welsh King who has been battling against the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. The Battle of Catraeth The foundational masterpiece of Welsh poetry, Y Gododdin, tells how Mynyddog Mwynfawr, the King of Gododdin in the Hen Ogledd, summoned warriors from several other Welsh kingdoms and provided them with a year's feasting in his mead hall at Din Eidyn (now the site of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland). Then, in 600 A.D., after attending both Mass and Confession, Mynyddog led them in a campaign against the Anglo-Saxons which culminated with the Battle of Catraeth (believed to have been fought at Catterick in North Yorkshire). After several days of fighting against overwhelming odds, Mynyddog and nearly all of his warriors were killed. The manuscript contains several stanzas which have no connection with Y Gododdin and are considered to