war-thrall

Updated: June 6, 2025

Then there arose great laughter in the hall, and men withdrew them from those twain and went and sat them down in their places. Then the chieftain said: "Come up hither, I say, O Hallblithe, and bring thy war-thrall with thee if thou wilt. But delay not, unless it be so that thou art neither hungry nor thirsty; and good sooth thou shouldst be both; for men say that the ravens are hard to satisfy.

William Morris - The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men