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A valiant Matelgar takes their place; Alfric and Sexwold and many another gallant fugitive cast up, like scattered hounds, at the sound of "The Wake's" war-horn. As for Hereward, he would fight seven. "Les quatre oscist, les treis fuirent; Naffrez, sanglant, cil s'en partirent En plusurs lius issi avint, K'encontre seit tres bien se tuit De seit hommes avait vertu, Un plus hardi ne fu veu."
Of course they were beggars, princes and paupers, lairds and loons, being all equally unfortunate; the Arabs have named the country Bilad Wa Issi, the "Land of Give me Something;" but their wants were easily satisfied, and the open hand always made a friend.
"Brother!" they said gently. * "Tekasenthos, O Sagamore!" I whispered, dropping my head on his broad shoulder. "Issi tye-y-ad-akeron, akwah de-ya-kon-akor-on-don!"
So when Odysseus blinds Polyphemos, and the other Kyklopes ask the monster who did it, he says, "Nobody did it." There is a Slavonian story, also, in which a cunning smith puts out the eyes of the Devil, and says that his name is Issi, "myself;" and when the tortured demon is asked who hurt him, he says, "Issi did it;" and then his companions ridicule him.
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