The Anathemata
Mabinog’s Liturgy (continued)
Not Lalla, lalla, lalla1
not rockings now
nor clovered breath for the health of him as under the straw’d crucks that baldachin’d in star-lit town where he was born, the maid’s fair cave his dwelling.
David Jones notes
1 See note 6 to page 185 above.
additional notes
Note the pun crucks/crux.
Also cf. the opening of one of the very many variants of the English popular ballad Barbara Allen: ‘In Scarlet Town, where I was born/There was a fair maid dwelling . . .’
comments
This nicely finishes the relationship between the Christ of Bethlehem and the Christ of Good Friday by referring to Mary.