'
Said Hall-face: 'So it is that my brother is no ill woodman, as ye
learned last autumn.'
Iron-face smiled, but somewhat sadly; for he beheld Face-of-god, who
had no eyes for anyone save the Sun-beam; and no marvel was that, for
never had she looked fairer. And forsooth the War-leader was not
utterly well-pleased; for he was deeming that there would be delaying
of his wedding, now that the Sun-beam was to become a maid of the
Steer; and in his mind he half deemed that it would be better if he
were to take her by the hand and lead her home through the wild-wood,
he and she alone; and she looked on him shyly, as though she had a
deeming of his thought. Albeit he knew it might not be, that he, the
chosen War-leader, should trouble the peace of the kindred; for he
wotted that all this was done for peace' sake.
So Hall-ward stood forth and took the Sun-beam's right hand in his,
and said:
'Now do I take this maiden, Sun-beam of the kindred of the Wolf, and
lead her into the House of the Steer, to be in all ways one of the
maidens of our House, and to wed in the blood wherein we have been
wont to wed.
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