ugly-face

Updated: May 25, 2025

Though the strange man must have known he was horribly ugly that is, if he ever bent to drink of the clear bright waters of the lovely Meuse, which reflected in those days every lily-bell and every grass-blade which grew upon its banks, and gave a faithful portraiture in its cool waters of every creature that leant over them though he was certainly the most frightful creature that had ever met the blacksmith’s sight, it was evident enough that he did not like being called Ugly-face.

Lewis Spence - Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine