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Updated: June 4, 2025
Bow-may smiled on Gold-mane and rose up, and they all went on together, turning so that they went nearly alongside the wall of the Vale, but westering a little; then the Sun- beam said: 'Many a time have I trodden this heath alongside our rock-wall; for if ye wend a little further as our faces are turned, ye come to the crags over the place where the Shivering Flood goeth out of Shadowy Vale.
She smiled: 'Even so I think thou deemest, Gold-mane. But many things shall hinder us besides the long road. Said he: 'Yea, and what things? 'Thinkest thou, said the Sun-beam, 'that the winning of Silver-stead is the last battle which thou shalt see? 'Nay, said he, 'nay. 'Shall thy Dale our Dale be free from all trouble within itself henceforward?
'Yea, said Bow-may, 'and might I have hauberk and helm of his handiwork, and Wood-wise a good sword of the same, then were I a glad woman, and this man a happy carle. Said Gold-mane: 'I am well pleased at thine asking, and so shall Iron-face be when he heareth of thine archery; and how that Hall-face were now his only son but for thy close shooting.
Quoth Bow-may: 'Thou shalt deem her twice a God ere noon-tide, brother Gold-mane. But come now! the hour of deadly battle is at hand, and we may not laugh that away; and therefore I bid thee remember, Gold-mane, how thou didst promise to kiss me once more on the verge of deadly battle.
But Stone-face, who stood by Gold-mane, shook his head and quoth he: 'The Wild-wood holdeth many marvels, and these be of them: the spawn of evil wights quickeneth therein, and at other whiles it melteth away again like the snow; so may it be with these carcasses.
So they talked, and Gold-mane was very happy; but ere the good-night cup was drunk, Folk-might spake to Face-of-god and said: 'It were well that ye rose betimes in the morning: but thou shalt not go back by the way thou camest.
Then she went away by a door at the lower end of the hall, and Wild- wearer came and sat down by Gold-mane, and fell a-talking with him about the ways of the Dalesmen, and their garths, and the pastures and growths thereof; and what temper the carles themselves were of; which were good men, which were ill, which was loved and which scorned; no otherwise than if he had been the goodman of some neighbouring dale; and Gold-mane told him whatso he knew, for he saw no harm therein.
Be sure then that she shall not gainsay him. O fair shall the world be to-morrow! But she said: 'O Gold-mane, I have no words. Is there no minstrelsy amongst us?
Or else beware! for there are evil things abroad in the Wood, and moreover the brethren of those two felons who were slain at Carlstead. Then Gold-mane constrained himself to answer the old carle softly; and he thanked him kindly for his offer, and said that so it should be before long. So the talk between them fell, and Stone-face went away somewhat well-pleased.
'Yea surely, said Face-of-god; 'fair are the water-meadows about it; great gain of cheese can be gotten thence. 'Hast thou been within the house? said the carle. 'Nay, said Gold-mane. Then spake Penny-thumb: 'Within is scant gear: we gather for others to scatter; we make meat for others' mouths.
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