Welsh king's cat ("Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales".
Ed., Aneurin Owen. Longman, London, 1841, 2 vols. 8vo).



CHAPTER XV.

Of the Welding together of the Shards of the Sward Gram.

So Regin makes a sword, and gives it into Sigurd's hands. He
took the sword, and said --

"Behold thy smithying, Regin!" and therewith smote it into the
anvil, and the sword brake; so he cast down the brand, and bade
him forge a better.

Then Regin forged another sword, and brought it to Sigurd, who
looked thereon.

Then said Regin, "Belike thou art well content therewith, hard
master though thou be in smithying."

So Sigurd proved the sword, and brake it even as the first; then
he said to Regin --

"Ah, art thou, mayhappen, a traitor and a liar like to those
former kin of thine?"

Therewith he went to his mother, and she welcomed him in seemly
wise, and they talked and drank together.