Note 3 — BOOK V.
Reading edition
—Page 275, stanza xii.
Dark Mona's Owaine shines with golden arms.
Owaine's birth-place and domains are variously surmised: in the text they are ascribed to Mona (Anglesea). St. Palaye, concurrently both with French fabliasts and Welch bards, makes this hero very fond of the pomp and blazonry of arms, and attributes to him the introduction of buckles to spurs, furred mantles, and the use of gloves.