There they took off their skids, and went into the thick wood and sat
down under a hornbeam tree; and ere Gold-mane could open his mouth to
speak Bow-may began and said:
'Well it was that I fell in with thee, Dalesman, else had there been
murders of men to tell of; but ever she ordereth all things wisely,
though unwisely hast thou done to seek to her. Hearken! dost thou
think that thou hast done well that thou hast me here with my tale?
Well, hadst thou busied thyself with the slaying of elks, or with
sitting quietly at home, yet shouldest thou have heard my tale, and
thou shouldest have seen me in Burgstead in a day or two to tell thee
concerning the flitting of the token. And ill it is that I have
missed it, for fain had I been to behold the House of the Face, and
to have seen thee sitting there in thy dignity amidst the kindred of
chieftains.'
And she sighed therewith. But he said: 'Hold up thine heart, Bow-
may! On the word of a true man that shall befall thee one day. But
come, playmate, give me thy tale!'
'Yea,' she said, 'I must now tell thee in the wild-wood what else I
had told thee in the Hall.
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