Bitter tears shall she shed and fill the Island with a terrible noise.

Then shall she be slain by the stag with ten antlers, of which six branches shall bear crowns of gold, and the other six shall be changed into the horns of oxen; and with a horrible sound they shall shake the Isles of Britain.

The forest of Denmark shall rise up and with a human voice say: 'Come, Cambria, and take Cornwall unto thyself.'"[693] [Footnote 693: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

340-342.] In these mysterious words Merlin dimly foretells that a virgin shall perform great and wonderful deeds before perishing by the hand of the enemy.

On one point only is he clear, or so it seems; that is, when he says that this virgin shall come from the town of the Bois-Chenu.
If this prophecy had been traced back to its original source and read in the fourth book of the _Historia Britonum_, where it is to be found under the title of _Guyntonia Vaticinium_, it would have been seen to refer to the English city of Winchester, and it would have appeared that in the version then in circulation in France, the original meaning had been garbled, distorted, and completely metamorphosed.