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Updated: June 20, 2025
They then, in the darkness, attacked the array of knights with the fury of lions, slaying more than forty of them, and putting the remnant to flight. This done, they returned to King Ryons where he lay helpless, and with a threat of death forced him to yield himself to their grace. "Valiant knights, slay me not," he asked. "You may profit by my life, but can win nothing by my death."
"Hide you both in this covert," said Merlin; "for presently there shall come riding down this path King Ryons with sixty of his knights." With these words he vanished.
But the man who will deliver me of it must be one who is mighty of his hands, and pure in his deeds, without villainy, or treason. If I find a Knight such as this, he will draw this sword out of its sheath, and he only. For I have been at the Court of King Ryons, and he and his Knights tried with all their strength to draw the sword and they could not.
Among the princes that thought scorn of Arthur in the days when first he became king, none was more insolent than Ryons of North Wales.
He said that King Ryons had discomfited and overcome eleven kings, each of whom had been forced to do him homage in the following manner: each had sent him his beard, and the king had trimmed his mantle with these kings' beards. But there lacked one place on the mantle, and he therefore sent for King Arthur's beard to complete the fringe.
You will gain no advantage over King Ryons without my counsel." "Ah! you are Merlin," said Balin. "Then we shall be glad of your counsel." "Come then with me. But look that you brace yourself to knightly deeds, for you will have great need to do so." "As for that," said Balin, "we will do what we can. No knight can do more."
Thither will we ride together in all haste, to prove our honour and prowess upon him." "I will gladly do that," said Balan; "we will help each other as brothers ought to do." So they took their way to find King Ryons, and as they rode along together they encountered him in a straight way with threescore knights.
Take this head and bear it to my friends in Northumberland, and tell them that my mortal foe is dead. Also tell them that I am out of prison, and by what adventure I got this sword." "You were greatly to blame to displease King Arthur," said the squire. "As for that," said Balin, "I hope to win his grace again by the death or capture of King Ryons, whom I go to meet.
So Sir Balan rode with King Ryons to Camelot that he might deliver him to King Arthur; but Balin went not with them, for he would see more adventures before he sought King Arthur's presence again.
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