wask-stone

Updated: June 1, 2025

By my troth, I deemed thou hadst withstood a foeman better." Cried Hildebrand, "Thou needest not to twit me. Who was it that, by the wask-stone, sat upon his shield when Walter of Spain slew so many of his kinsmen? Thou, thyself, art not void of blame." Said Sir Dietrich then, "It beseemeth not warriors to fight with words like old women. I forbid thee, Master Hildebrand, to say more.

- The Fall of the Niebelungs