XXIDuring the following days, the Cymry, or the Legion of the Bear, as men came to refer to it, made urgent preparations for the campaign against the Saxons of the southeast, for it was of the utmost importance that the new army should be on the move before the winter snows might impede them, or lock them in the west until spring, when the invaders might have accumulated fresh multitudes of supporters.
All told, the Legion now numbered upwards of eight hundred cavalrymen, besides armourers, grooms, cooks and huntsmen, whose function was to enable the horsemen to live off the lands they passed through.
Artos and Medrawt led the first and second companies of Cymry, Bedwyr the two hundred Dumnonians who had chosen to follow the new dux bellorum, and Cei, since he was of the same Silurian ra
