CHAPTER XLIX. DALLACH FARETH TO ROSE-DALE: CROW TELLETH OF HIS
ERRAND: THE KINDREDS EAT THEIR MEAT IN SILVER-DALE
Now Dallach, who had gone away for a while, came back again into the
Hall; and at his back were a half score of men who bore ladders with
them: they were stout men, clad in scanty and ragged raiment, but
girt with swords and bearing axes, those of them who were not
handling the ladders. Men looked on them curiously, because they saw
them to be of the roughest of the thralls. They were sullen and
fierce-eyed to behold, and their hands and bare arms were flecked
with blood; and it was easy to see that they had been chasing the
fleers, and making them pay for their many torments of past days.
But when Face-of-god beheld this he cried out: 'Ho, Dallach! is it
so that thou hast bethought thee to bring in hither men to fall to
the cleansing of the Hall, and to do away the defiling of the Dusky
Men?'
'Even so, War-leader,' said Dallach; 'also ye shall know that all
battle is over in Silver-stead; for the thralls fell in numbers not
to be endured on the Dusky Men who had turned their backs to us, and
hindered them from fleeing north.
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