The last conqueror of the Celtic race, Cadwallon, still lived to combat for his people.

The supposed verses of Taliesin expressed the undying hope of a restoration of the Cymry.

"In their hands shall be all the land from Britanny to Man: ...

a rumour shall arise that the Germans are moving out of Britain back again to their fatherland." Gathered up in the strange work of Geoffry of Monmouth, these predictions had long been making a deep impression not on Wales only but on its conquerors.

It was to meet the dreams of a yet living Arthur that the grave of the legendary hero-king at Glastonbury was found and visited by Henry the Second.