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Updated: July 13, 2025
He brought from the ruinous steps her watchet mantle, and she let him clasp it about her throat. In the raised air of that isolate peak where true lovers take farewell there are few words used at the last.
The whole countryside turned out gladly, and the Watchet Norsemen helped also. In the end, on the next day they penned the outlaws into some combe, and took most of them, and then all was told by them, so far as they knew it. Gerent laid hands on four of the men who had sworn the oath Evan told me of, that evening after some leading outlaw had given their names, but Tregoz had escaped.
Then said I: "Hubba is in Wales, and is likely to come here when he hears that his fellows are gathering against us. Then will Devon be needed at Combwich in Parret mouth, or at Watchet." "That will be Devon's work," the king said. "If Hubba comes before your ships are ready to meet him, he must at least be driven to land elsewhere, or our stronghold is taken behind us."
But I could see nothing on the sea now; and so, very sad at heart, I sought a bushy hollow and laid me down and slept, while the smoke of Watchet hung round me, and now and then a brighter glare flashed over the low clouds, as the roof of some building fell in and fed the flames afresh.
So, as Ceorle bid us, we four sat down by the window, and the king asked me to tell my story from the first. So I began by saying that I had seen the landing of the Danes at Stert, and warned the watchmen of the levy. There Alfred stopped me, holding up his pen suddenly. "Tell us, Thane, of the Watchet landing," he said.
When my little brother was born 'e was 'owlin' wild down Watchet way, an' screechin' to all the folks as 'ow the baby wasn't his'n!" This was a doubtful subject, a "delicate and burning question," as reviewers for the press say when they want to praise some personal friend's indecent novel and pass it into decent households, and Helmsley let it drop.
"That would be foolishness," Evan said; "the next thing would be that every one would know who the captive that was taken out of Watchet was. I have a better plan than that. We will tie him up like a sorely wounded man, and so get him shipped carefully and quietly with no questions asked." "Well, then, there is no time to lose. We must be at the harbour in four hours' time at the latest.
One of her rhymes is well remembered in the neighbourhood: When Watchet is all washed down Williton shall be a seaport town. This is founded on the gradual encroachment of the sea, which is a fact, but it will be some time yet before masts are seen at Williton. At Dunster there is a curious mill which has two wheels, overshot, one in front of the other, and both driven by the same sluice.
The reptiles, not usually susceptible to the voice of the charmer, were at her intercession turned into stone a fact to which the ammonites in the local quarry bear witness. St Keyne's name occurs also at Kentisford, near Watchet. Later, the town acquired a borrowed lustre from its association with one of the greater religious houses.
But Thorgils had not come hither without a plan in his head, and he set it before the king plainly. "Norton is on the southern end of the Quantocks, and Watchet is at the northern end, as you know, King Ina. Between the two on the hills is the great camp which any force can hold, but nought but a great one can storm.
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