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I listen poorly on an empty stomach. Let's go back to the jeep and you can tell me later." Copper smiled. "That's good," she said. "I'd feel better away from this place." "I was a poor learner of the redes," Copper confessed. "And I'll have to skip the Mysteries. I never even tried to learn them. Somehow I was sure I'd never be a preceptress."
What he believed might be good enough to hold up in a Brotherhood court, but he doubted it. Ulf and Lyssa might be the founders of the Lani race, but they had come to Kardon nearly four thousand years ago and no records existed to prove that the Lani weren't here before they came. Redes passed by word of mouth through hundreds of generations were not evidence.
Then men answered, that good redes would be plenteous if the housewife should abide behind to look after his affairs; but she said
Many redes were sought, but nought could be done; men thought it like that all Waterdale would be laid waste if nought were found to better this. <i>Grettir hears of the Hauntings</i>.
Then spoke Angle, and bade men fare warily and guard themselves well, "for we may prevail against them if we follow wary redes." So they tore away the thatch from the ends of the ridge-beam, and bore on the beam till it brake asunder.
Grettir thanked him for his wholesome redes, and so turned back to Burgfirth in the autumn, and found Grim Thorhallson, his friend, and told him of Skapti's counsels; so Grim bade him fare north to Fishwater lakes on Ernewaterheath; and thus did he. <i>Of Grettir on Ernewaterheath, and his dealings with Grim there</i>.
"That is an ill saying, wife," said Atli. "Methinks thou dost foretell their doom." "Mayhap! And now I will add to my redes, for I foretell thy doom also: it is not yet, but it draws on." Then Atli bethought him of many wise saws, but spoke no more, for it seemed to him this was a strange bride that he had wed.
And the hony and the wyn and the venym ben drawen out of other trees, in the same manere, and put in veselles for to kepe. In that yle is a ded see, that is a lake, that hathe no ground. And zif ony thing falle in to that lake, it schalle nevere comen up azen. In that lake growen redes, that ben cannes, that thei clepen thaby, that ben 30 fadme long. And of theise canes men maken faire houses.
Thereafter was Thorstein ever with the Varangians, and men say that he sought counsel of Harald Sigurdson, and their mind it is that Thorstein and Spes would not have taken to those redes but for the trust they had in him and his wisdom. Now as time wore on, goodman Sigurd gave out that he would fare from home on certain errands of his own.
The king said, "Worser deeds hast thou done than men have to tell of, and great unwisdom is there in such fearful redes; most meet art thou to be burned on bale when thou hast first been smitten to death with stones, for in such wise wouldst thou have what thou hast gone a weary way to seek." She answered, "Thine own death thou foretellest, but another death is fated for me."
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