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Updated: May 7, 2025
They were not talking in vain, because a knight who wore the girdle was not permitted to say even one word without meaning it, and the knight who vowed anything, was obliged to accomplish his vow or perish. Powala was the most implacably angry because he had a beloved daughter of Danusia's age in Taczew, and Danusia's tears made his heart tender.
Talking thus, they went back toward the princess' retinue. Powala's servants followed them. From afar one could see amidst the Mazovian caps, the quivering peacock feathers of the Knight of the Cross and his bright helmet shining in the sun. "Strange is the nature of a Krzyzak," said the knight of Taczew.
"I prefer to go before the courts, than to bow to a Krzyzak!" exclaimed Zbyszko. "It would not be befitting my dignity as a wlodyka." Powala of Taczew looked at him severely and said: "You do not act wisely. Old people know better than you, what is right and what is befitting a knight's dignity.
"If only we could capture one of them," said Macko. "Worthy booty we could get!" But Powala of Taczew was thinking about something else; namely, of Zbyszko, who was in peril because of his stupid blind fury.
Then something like steel shone in his eyes, and he immediately began to bid the princess adieu. The Lord of Taczew could not abstain from deriding him and at the moment of departure he said to him: "Go without fear, brave knight. The country is quiet and nobody will attack you, except some careless child."
Therefore I forgive him with all my heart, as Christ's servant and friar!" "Honor to him!" shouted Powala of Taczew. "Honor!" repeated the others. "But," said the Krzyzak, "I am here among you as an envoy and I carry in me the majesty of the whole Order which is Christ's Order.
I shall attach myself to the king's retinue, and I think that at Torun, either Pan Zawisza of Garbow or Powala of Taczew will ask permission from our lord to allow me to fight those monks. They will certainly come to fight accompanied by their armor-bearers; in that case you will also have to meet them." "If I were to kill any one, I should like him to be a monk," said the Bohemian.
He wondered why he had not even thought about this means of assistance. Amidst the general bustle, Powala of Taczew told the knights that this remedy had been discovered by Wojciech Jastrzembiec and Stanislaw of Skarbimierz, both experts in the written laws and customs.
Zbyszko stood at Danusia's side and began to tell her that from the hill one could see Krakow; at the same time Macko was telling one of the rybalts about the extraordinary strength of the Pan of Taczew, who had broken the spear in Zbyszko's hand, as though it were a dry stem. "And why did he break it?" asked the rybalt. "Because the boy in fun attacked the German."
"It is not necessary for your uncle to tell me anything; in Krakow, I saw the Pan of Taczew who told me about you. But I understand that the Mazur does not want to give you his daughter. I have nothing against you; but I like you. You will forget about that one when you see my Jagienka. She is a wonder!" "I shall not forget, even if I see ten such as your Jagna."
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