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Updated: May 10, 2025
And when Hereward came forward, all the ladies agreed that he must be an earl's son; for he had a great gold torc round his neck, and gold rings on his wrists; and a new scarlet coat, bound with gold braid; and scarlet stockings, cross-laced with gold braid up to the knee; and shoes trimmed with martin's fur; and a short blue silk cloak over all, trimmed with martin's fur likewise; and by his side, in a broad belt with gold studs, was the Ogre's sword Brain-biter, with its ivory hilt and velvet sheath; and all agreed that if he had but been a head taller, they had never seen a properer man.
And others taking up the cry, called out, "Sorcery!" and "Treason!" Hereward stood over Ironhook as he lay writhing and foaming on the ground. "Killed by a boy at last!" groaned he. "If I had but had my own sword, my Brain-biter which that witch stole from me but last night!" and amid foul curses and bitter tears of shame his mortal spirit fled to its doom.
He took it from him courteously enough, put a silver penny into the minstrel's hand, and running his fingers over the strings, rose and began, "Outlaw and free thief, Landless and lawless Through the world fare I, Thoughtless of life. Soft is my beard, but Hard my Brain-biter.
To have sent thee feet foremost to Winchester, to lie by thy grandfathers and great-grandfathers, and then to tell Norman William that he must fight it out henceforth, not with a straw malkin like thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on, but with a cock of a very different hackle, Sweyn Ulfsson, King of Denmark." And Hereward drew Brain-biter.
The sparks flew, the iron clanged; but so heavy were the stranger's strokes, that Hereward reeled again and again. So sure was the guard of his shield, that Hereward could not wound him, hit where he would. At last he dealt a furious blow on the stranger's head. "If that does not bring your master down!" quoth Geri. "By , Brain-biter is gone!" It was too true. Sword Brain-biter's end was come.
These things had become myths to most people, but here was Broadway in the midst of them unconsciously suggesting that it might not have done ill in the matter of swinging "Brain-Biter" itself. The modern entity slipped back again through the lengthened links of bygone centuries back until it became T. Tembarom once more- casual though shrewd; ready and jocular.
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