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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Now have I got you at an advantage as you had me yesternight. But it shall never be said that Roderic of Gigha would meanly slay any man who was weaponless. And therefore take up your sword, Earl Alpin, and let us make an end of this battle." Roderic then drew back that Alpin might without hindrance take up his sword.
Then the King drawing his sword touched Kenric on his broad back, saying: "Earl Kenric, in right of your parentage and in virtue of the future service which we shall expect of you, we now pronounce you the rightful lord over the isles of Bute and Gigha, with the title of knight of the most ancient order of the Thistle."
He raised his right hand and all saw that he held the bloodstained knife. "Die, slayer of the just!" he cried, bringing down the weapon upon Roderic's breast. But Roderic of Gigha laughed a mocking laugh, and catching Alpin by the wrist he threw him backward. Duncan Graham broke his fall and tore the weapon from his grasp.
I, as the younger son, was perforce content to take the miserable portion that I now possess. Gigha is but a small island, my lady." "Our happiness need not depend upon the extent of our dominions, Lord Roderic," said Adela; "and I doubt not you are passing happy, notwithstanding that you have but a younger son's inheritance."
Aasta, leaving her work, ran down towards the man, and when she got near him she saw that his clothes were torn, and his limbs bleeding from many wounds. He was lying on his back, groaning. She looked into his white face and saw that it was the face of the man whom Earl Kenric had left in Gigha as his steward and governor.
Now Elspeth had seen young Ailsa Redmain as the girl was passing to her father's castle, and Ailsa had told her how the wicked lord of Gigha had been made an outlaw. So Elspeth questioned the shipmaster, asking him if he would be free to carry this man away from Bute.
"Who is the villain that hath done this wicked thing?" she cried as Alpin and Kenric entered. "Roderic, Earl of Gigha," answered Kenric. "Ah, unhappy hour that ever brought him within these walls! Where is he now?" "He is made prisoner with his two companions," said Kenric. "Prisoner not slain! You have not slain him? Oh, my sons, where is your spirit? Why have you let him live thus long?
I swear it now, Kenric by our holy faith I swear that if Roderic of Gigha has indeed slain our father, then Roderic shall die by my hand!" "Will such vengeance give back the life that has been taken?" asked Kenric solemnly. "Will vengeance restore to our dear mother the happiness that she now has lost?
"Alas! and I thought him dead. Who told you this thing?" "A fisherman of Gigha," said Allan. "But I understood him ill. Methinks we had better inquire of the maid Aasta the Fair, for the fisher spoke with her, and well I wot he told her all." "Doubtless," said Kenric. "And on the morrow I will even seek Aasta and learn from her if this be true.
He cannot walk but with pain, or I might have sent him to you." "That is most unfortunate," said Kenric, "for saving Lulach and myself there is none in the island who can speak the Norse tongue. I would have sent him to Gigha to learn the truth of this you tell, and to discover if there be further danger." "You forget, my lord, that it was I who taught Lulach the Norse tongue," said Aasta.
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