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Updated: May 23, 2025
Grumbling and blaspheming between his teeth, Chram finally and slowly alighted from his horse and motioned his two favorites Imnachair and Spatachair, both of whom took the hint, to do as he did, and drop down upon their knees.
The three dear friends of Chram, still dearer friends of pillage, of murder and of rape, accompany the royal personage, do you not hear? Their names are Imnachair, Spatachair, and the "Lion of Poitiers," the renegade Gaul, who, like so many others of his stripe, rallied to the conquering Franks.
I have pages, plenty of them. Ha, ha, ha look at the droll fellow with his jacket. Look, Imnachair, how clumsily he carries himself how he grunts for all the world he looks like the Lion of Poitiers in his morning gown, after spending a night with women and wine." "What else should I do, Chram! I consider lost every night that I do not put to use in your style with wine and women."
"My friends!" cried Chram in his turn but without being able to make himself heard, "it is folly, it is stupidity to slay one another in this wise. Imnachair! Spatachair! calm our men; and you, Neroweg, calm yours instead of exciting them!" Vain words; they dropped unheard; neither Neroweg nor the rest of the leudes did or cared to listen to words of conciliation.
"Suddenly one of the slaves who must have been stationed on the lookout over the crest of the rock, ran towards the hut crying: 'Horsemen! We see far away, in a cloud of dust, a number of horsemen riding at full gallop in this direction! "'Death and fury! cried Imnachair stamping the ground and growing pale. 'It is Chram the battle is lost!
The young woman looked depressed; her eyes were in tears; behind her I saw a warrior, whom I readily recognized as one of the three favorites of Chram, Imnachair, the identical warrior who witnessed the torture to which I was subjected at the burg of Neroweg." "Were that woman and children Chram's family? It has always seemed strange to me that such monsters should at all have families."
"At these words the poor young woman fell down upon her knees, clasped her two daughters to her heart, and I could hear but the moans and sobs of the mother and her children. "'Quick! Quick! To the boat! shouted Imnachair. 'Slaves, unload the mules; take to the boat the cases that they carry; and you, madam, hold yourself ready to embark!"
"The precipitate tramp of galloping horses was heard approaching, also the clank of armors, and even voices, that, although confused, sounded furious. "'It is my husband! cried Chram's wife, growing deadly pale. 'But his father is pursuing him! Do you not hear those cries of death? "Imnachair listened. 'Yes, said he; 'it is the voice of King Clotaire! Flee, madam; flee, you and your children!
A minute later I saw the boat, now loaded with the cases that were taken from the pack-saddles of the mules, and which undoubtedly contained the treasury of Chram, row swiftly towards the vessel, the sails of which were at the same time being loosened to the wind." "And the woman the two children?" "Imnachair left them all behind.
At the Prince's right rode the "Lion of Poitiers," the hardened criminal who, together with Imnachair and Spatachair, both of whom rode close behind him in the second rank, constituted a trinity of perdition ample enough to damn Chram, had not Chram been damned in his very mother's womb, as the priests express it.
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