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Quoth the Earl: "I am the master of the land of Meadham, so there is no need to tell thee that I have thy life or death in my hand. Now thou wilt not deny that thou art of the company of Jack o' the Tofts?" "It is sooth," said Christopher. "Well," said the Earl, "thou art bold then to have come hither, for thou sayest it that thou art a wolf's-head and forfeit of thy life.
The Vagres of Ronan are ever faithful to the sacred commandments of the Vagrery: "Let us take from the rich and give to the poor. The Vagre who preserves a sou for the morrow ceases to be a Vagre, a 'Wolf's-head, a 'wand'ring man. He ever divides the booty of the previous evening among the poor, so that he be compelled to pillage fresh renegade bishops, and Frankish oppressors of old Gaul.
"I! Who am I? Out-of-law, and a wolf's-head." "We will put you back into your law, we will give you your lands in full husting." "Never mind a husting on my behalf. Let us have a husting, if we have one, for a better end than that. Now, men of Bourne, I have put the coal in the bush. Dare you blow the fire till the forest is aflame from south to north? I have fought a dozen of Frenchmen.
The walls were only plastered, and were stained with damp. Against them were fixed a few mouldering heads of wild animals the stag and the fox and the otter one ancient wolf's-head also, wherever that had been killed. But it was not into this room the laird led his son. The passage ended in a stone stair that went up between containing walls.
At five of the clock I lifted the great wolf's-head knocker of shining brass which frowned above the door of Master Gerard von Sturm in the port of the Weiss Thor. Hardly had I let it fall again when a small wicket, apparently about two feet above my head, opened, and a huge round head with enormous ears at either side peeped out.
"And who is this Hereward of whom you speak?" said Hereward at last. "We thought you might know him, Sir Knight, if you come from Flanders, as you say you do," said three or four voices in a surprised and surly tone. "Certainly I know such a man, if he be Hereward the wolf's-head, Hereward the outlaw, as they call him.
Had not she, too, spent her life upon a man, and that man a wolf's-head and a landless outlaw, more utterly than Godiva could ever have spent hers on one who lived lapped in luxury and wealth and power? Torfrida had done her best, and she had failed, or at least fancied in her haste that she had failed. What she wanted was, not counsel, but love.
"What is the reason of such emotion?" "A family remembrance if a Vagre, a 'Wand'ring Man, a 'Wolf, a 'Wolf's-Head' can be at all said to have a family " "And what is that family remembrance?" "The sweet Hena, to whom the chant refers, was one of my ancestresses." "How do you know that?"
"Take service with me and make a good name for yourself," he said. "It is a pity to see a good warrior who will do a kindly turn to a captive naught but a wolf's-head Viking. I have need of courtmen." "I might do worse," he answered; "but hither comes my father, and I have no mind to fight him at the very beginning of my service."
Therefore I naysay the word of the War-brand that we should make this man a wolf's-head; for in so doing we shall show ourselves lesser-hearted than he is, and of no account beside of him; and his head on our hall-gable should be to us a nithing-stake, and a tree of reproach.
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