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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Shame on us that a truce bearer should be shot at. Bind him, and set me up a gallows that the country round may see." I saw the man throw down his bow and hold out his hands. "The prince is right," he said in a dull voice. Jefan walked up to him and looked at him. "So you own that? Well, you shall not die.
There they scattered, and stood and watched. And then the attack on the gate ceased, and back the foe went. "After them, and scourge them home to their mistress," shouted Kynan, leaping down to the gateway, where his men did but wait some word which should tell them to throw it open for a sally. I looked for Jefan; but he was across the camp, seeing hastily to the weakened places in the stockade.
Unless we get hence shortly we shall be fallen on. The reeve told me that he could gather five-score men of the worst sort in a day by the raising of his finger." "It would need men of the best to take this place." "Outlaws and suchlike I meant men who will have Gymbert's promise of inlawing again if they will do his bidding. See, here comes Jefan!"
The man shook his head, but laughed. "They are bold enough to shoot at us, however," he said. "You would do the same if you met a Mercian cattle lifter," laughed Kynan. "That is naught." Jefan rode in slowly, bidding us good morrow cheerfully as he came. Kynan said that he supposed the owners of the kine were about.
So said Jefan, and laughed a short laugh. But he did not look at his brother, nor did Kynan look at him. "That is the worst of a raid," said Kynan. "It stirs up such a hornet's nest round one's ears. However, we on the border are somewhat used to it. We can take care of ourselves."
I suppose they are obliged to make too much of a matter, so that about the rights thereof may be believed. At that wedding there were a surprise and a pleasure for me which Jefan had prepared. He had heard of a vessel new come to Swansea, where the Danes are, and he had sent thither to learn what she was. And when he heard, he bade her captain to this feast to meet me.
Either would be enough to set him on his mettle, for none with whom I had spoken thought that the forced retirement of the queen would last long. She would soon be as powerful as ever, they said. Now he came within half arrow shot of the gate, outside of which the two princes stood. There he halted, and lowered his spear to the ground. "Jefan ap Huwal the prince?" he said in the best of Welsh.
All this far bank was like a fair; for it was full of cattle, and sheep, and horses, with a gray dog or two minding them. "Jefan told us you were to come," he said; "but we looked for you to cross at the great ford. We thought none knew of this now." I told him how I found it, and thanked him for timely help.
Jefan had a wonderful palace in Caerleon, which his forbears had held since the days when they took the place of the Roman governor by whom it had been built.
"Why, you have met with men after your own heart, Kynan," laughed Jefan. "More of that tale by-and-by. "Well, lady, you are safe, and that is the best. Now you shall see your father. "See to our guests, brother." Jefan took Hilda's hand and led her to the best of the huts, and, with a word to one within, entered. In a moment he was out again, with a smile on his face in the firelight.
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