shield-mates

Updated: May 28, 2025

Hearken, my shield-mates: we swore to be true to each other, even to death: is it not so? What then shall be said of that man who cut loose the Gudruda and left us two to die at the foeman's hand?" "Who was the man?" asked a voice. "That man was Hall of Lithdale," said Eric.

Henry Rider Haggard - Eric Brighteyes