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"Yes, Lulach, run, run like the wind!" cried Aasta, and the lad ran off. Kenric was about to follow him, when Aasta drew him back. "One will serve as well as two, my lord," said she, "and methinks it were better that you sped back to Rothesay. Lulach will not fail." "But I have yet another purpose, Aasta," said Kenric. "I would find the base villain, Roderic of Gigha."
"Not so," said Elspeth, "the youth you then slew was indeed your own son." "God forgive me!" murmured Roderic, sinking to his seat and burying his shaggy head in his hands. "Oh, Lulach, Lulach! my son, my son!" "Well may you weep, my lord; but methinks your punishment is full well deserved.
As I came backward through Glen More I saw a band of men with Sweyn of Colonsay ravaging the farmsteads and setting them in flames. Twelve cottages did I pass that had been razed to the ground. The saints be praised, all our people are safe! But oh, my lord, Lulach, Lulach is slain! He was the first to fall." "Lulach?" "Yes, and more. Know ye who slew him?
God watch between us in our danger. The holy Mother protect you, and on earth or in Heaven grant that we may meet again!" Then holding her near him he touched her white brow with his lips and left her sadly. Passing across the meadows of Kilmory he found Lulach the herd boy.
Beside the rock where, three hours before, Earl Roderic had stood, he found Lulach the herd boy, and on the height of the rock sat Aasta twining a wreath of daisies in her blood-red hair. When they saw Kenric they both stepped forward, and together they threw themselves upon the ground before him, pressing his coarse garments to their lips. "Give you good day, my lord the king," they both said.
Blane's this night, but that I go home to the castle to see who these strangers may be, and to learn their purpose." But as Lulach was taking the game into his hands, he drew back and pointed with trembling finger to the green path that led towards Rothesay. "See!" he exclaimed, "there is ill luck before you! Turn back, my master, turn back!"
Better had you obeyed our good abbot, and gone upon the holy pilgrimage; better still had you remained content upon your isle of Gigha, and never sought, in your ambition, to wrest from your brother Hamish the larger inheritance that you coveted. But you slew our good Earl Hamish; you slew his son Alpin. Blame now yourself alone in that your folly led you to slay also your own son Lulach.
The world will always believe Shakespeare's version of these events, and suppose the gracious Duncan to have been a venerable old man, and Macbeth an ambitious Thane, with a bloodthirsty wife, he himself being urged on by the predictions of witches. He was, in fact, Mormaor of Murray, and upheld the claims of his stepson Lulach, who was son of a daughter of the wrongfully extruded House of Aodh.
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