witch-draught

Updated: July 21, 2025

Then too, when I would have left her, she drugged me with a witch-draught ay, she drugged me, and I woke to find myself false to my oath, false to Atli, and false to thee, Gudruda. I cursed her and I left her, waiting for the Earl, to tell him all. But Swanhild outwitted me. She told him that other tale of shame that ye have heard, and brought Koll to him as witness of the tale.

Henry Rider Haggard - Eric Brighteyes