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Updated: September 25, 2025
"Enough!" he cried. "Seize the traitor, or, stay; children and fools, as you have said, Sir Ordgar, do indeed speak the truth. Have in the girl and let us hear the truth. 'Not seemly'? Sir Atheling," he broke out in reply to some protest of Edith's uncle. "Aught is seemly that the king doth wish. Holo! Raoul! Damian! sirrah pages!
I stand as champion for the king against yon traitor Atheling, and if the maiden's cause is his, why then against her too. This is a man's quarrel." Young Robert would have spoken yet again as his face flushed hot with anger at the knight's contemptuous words. But a firm hand was laid upon his shoulder, and a strong voice said: "Then is it mine, Sir Ordgar.
It was Haga, the father of Ordgar. "My eyes are not what they were, and I see no sign as yet. Ah, here comes little Siward!" A boy of some twelve years approached him very silently, as if some serious business was about to be transacted, of such nature as to subdue boyish loquacity. "Come hither, Siward, my grandchild, and lend me thine eyes and ears, for mine are now dulled by age.
"Mercy, mercy," cried the fugitive. "What dost thou fear? If thou art a true man no harm shall befall thee. We are not robbers." The Englishman, for such he was, descended, and was at once secured and bound to prevent his escape. "Now, fellow," said Hugo, "who art thou? Whose vassal art thou?" "My name is Ordgar, son of Haga." "Haga, formerly a thrall of my estate?" "The same."
The next step was to persuade Ordgar to guide the Normans through the Dismal Swamp to the English settlement.
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