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Leofwine, who stood next to Wolnoth, contrasted him notably; his sunny locks wreathed carelessly over a white unclouded brow, and the silken hair on the upper lip quivered over arch lips, smiling, even in that serious hour. At Godwin's right hand, but not immediately near him, stood the last of the group, Gurth and Harold.
But Harold's bold blood was up, and his kindly heart could not endure to inflict on his South Saxon subjects even the temporary misery of wasting the country. "He would not burn houses and villages, neither would he take away the substance of his people." Harold's brothers, Gurth and Leofwine, were with him in the camp, and Gurth endeavoured to persuade him to absent himself from the battle.
The night will be dark anon our steeds are fleet and not shod with iron like the Normans; the sward noiseless What think you?" "A merry conceit," cried the blithe Leofwine. "I should like much to see the boar in his den, ere he taste of my spear-point." "And I," said Gurth, "do feel so restless a fever in my veins that I would fain cool it by the night air.
But his prophecy had indeed come true, and though I might not see him more, the memory of Leofwine is with me always, with his words of wise counsel that he had spoken to me. Now of that other one who prophesied in her strange way to me I know no more, nor did I ever see her again. Gundred the witch, men called her, knowing her well, and fearing her.
She buried her face in the leaves, but the visions pressed faster before her. The son of Leofwine and the drunken feast the girl outside the tent the Jotun within it her terrible young guardian the battle-madness whichever way she looked, a new spectre confronted her. Helpless in their grip, she tossed to and fro in agony to and fro.
Leofwine, who stood next to Wolnoth, contrasted him notably; his sunny locks wreathed carelessly over a white unclouded brow, and the silken hair on the upper lip quivered over arch lips, smiling, even in that serious hour. At Godwin's right hand, but not immediately near him, stood the last of the group, Gurth and Harold.
It was many days since we started from Salisbury town, however, before we came to Cannington, and in that time we had sought the house of Turkil's father, the franklin, lodging with him for a day and night, that we might seek Leofwine the hermit.
"This; he refuses to restore thee and thy sons, or to hear thee, till thou hast disbanded thine army, dismissed thy ships, and consented to clear thyself and thy house before the Witanagemot." A fierce laugh broke from Tostig; Sweyn's mournful brow grew darker; Leofwine placed his right hand on his ateghar; Wolnoth rose erect; Gurth kept his eyes on Harold, and Harold's face was unmoved.
"Faith and troth, the young Haco speaks like a greybeard; he hath not lived in Rouen for nought," quoth Leofwine. "Hear him, my Harold, and leave us to shave the Normans yet more closely than the barber hath already shorn." Harold turned ear and eye to each of the speakers, and, as Leofwine closed, he smiled.
And now, as night advanced, Leofwine, who was ever a favourite in the banquet, as Gurth in the council, rose to propose the drink-hael, which carries the most characteristic of our modern social customs to an antiquity so remote, and the roar was hushed at the sight of the young Earl's winsome face.
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