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Updated: May 28, 2025
Rouwenne sate on her knee, and called to the king, and thus first she said in English land: "Lord king, wassail! for thy coming I am glad." The king this heard, and knew not what she said, the King Vortiger asked his knights soon, what were the speech that the maid spake.
For Hengest is hither come, he is my father, and I his son; and I have for mistress his daughter Rouwenne, and I have wedded her, and had in my bed, and afterwards I sent after Octa, and after more of his companions; how might I for shame shun them so soon, and drive from land my dear friends?"
These are the good customs in Saxland, and in Alemaine they are accounted noble!" Vortiger heard this -of each evil he was ware and said it in British, for he knew no English: "Maiden Rouwenne, drink then blithely!"
And through the same people the custom came to this land of Wassail and Drinchail -many a man thereof is glad' Rouwenne the fair sate by the king; the king beheld her longingly, she was dear to him in heart, oft he kissed her, oft he embraced her; all his mind and his might inclined towards the maiden.
The maiden was dear to the king, even as his own life; he prayed to Hengest, his chieftain, that he should give him the maid-child. Hengest found in his counsel to do what the king asked him; he gave him Rouwenne, the woman most fair.
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