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Updated: June 27, 2025
In an instant the banquet hall was deprived of its living illumination; the battle continued in the dark with blind ferocity. And Karadeucq and the lover of the beautiful bishopess, did they remain quietly in the midst of the butchery? Oh, by no means! Vagres know better than that.
From time to time Karadeucq went at night to visit the mother of his son at Tulle. The boy being always notified in advance by his mother, always found some means of repairing to his mother's hut on such occasions. There the father and the son held long conversations concerning the men and things of the olden days of Gaul when the country was glorious and free.
"Fear not, mother; it is some wolf prowling about. Where is my bow?" "Karadeucq, you stay here " "Dear Madalen, be not in such fear for your son, nor you my sweet Roselyk for your brother. Perhaps it is better not to challenge the hobgoblins and fairies on a stormy night, but your fears are idle.
"Well, I am glad to hear it, at last we are delivered from that Karadeucq! He was thought to be running the Vagrery in some other regions, but his return was always apprehended." "Oh, glorious Prince, he will never be back again unless the bandit descended from his gibbet, and that is unlikely.
I write these lines ten years after my father's death, and have never had any tidings of my poor son Karadeucq. He probably met his death in the adventurous life of a Bagauder. Britanny preserves her independence, the Franks dare not attack us. All the other provinces of Gaul have remained under the yoke of the bishops and the sons of Clovis.
It was my son Jocelyn, closely followed by his wife. He cried. "Father! Father! A great misfortune." "Alas! Alas! father. I told you that the Korrigans and the stranger would be fatal to my son. Why did I yield to you? Why did I allow him to depart this morning? Why did I allow my beloved Karadeucq to go away! It is done for him! I shall never more see him again! Oh! unhappy woman that I am!
Fortunately by means of a gentle tug given at the chain, Karadeucq recalled the Vagre to prudence and the latter continued his gambols with the most indifferent air in the world; but his conductor, without letting the chain slip from his hands, threw himself at the feet of Neroweg and said: "Seigneur count, illustrious seigneur!" "What would you of me, old mountebank?"
If it is the gods who wish to punish my son for his audacious wishes, their anger is swift Karadeucq, come near me." "What! Madalen there you are weeping and embracing the boy, as if really misfortune threatened him. Come, be more sensible!" "Do you not hear the dogs barking louder and louder? And there is Erer now running to the door. There is something wrong going on outside "
Was he killed or was he merely wounded and taken prisoner I do not know. All my efforts to ascertain his fate have been vain. Since then my companions elected me their chief. You wanted to know my history I have told it to you. You now know it." "You have told me more than you think for. Your father's name was Karadeucq." "How do you know that?" "The name of your father's father was Jocelyn.
Wise and prudent in counsel, old Karadeucq made the troop halt where it was screened by the trees from the eyes of the enemy, and said to them: "To attempt to leave the burg in a body would be to invite being slain to the last man. The moment we are seen, some of the Franks in their fury will stop trying to extinguish the fire and will fall upon us. There is only one chance of escape.
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