Forsooth divers of
them set up house in Rose-dale, and never came back to Burgdale, save
as guests. For a half score were wedded in Rose-dale before the
year's ending; and seven more, who had also taken to them wives of
the goodliest of the Rose-dale women, betook them the next spring to
the Burg of the Runaways, and there built them a stead, and drew a
garth about it, and dug and sowed the banks of the river, which they
called Inglebourne. And as years passed, this same stead throve
exceedingly, and men resorted thither both from Rose-dale and
Burgdale; for it was a pleasant place; and the land, when it was
cured, was sweet and good, and the wood thereabout was full of deer
of all kinds. So their stead was called Inglebourne after the
stream; and in latter days it became a very goodly habitation of men.
Moreover, some of the once-enthralled folk of Rose-dale, when they
knew that men of their kindred from Silver-dale were going home with
the men of Burgdale to dwell in the Dale, prayed hard to go along
with them; for they looked on the Burgdalers as if they were new Gods
of the Earth. The Burgdale chiefs would not gainsay these men
either, but took with them three score and ten from Rose-dale, men
and women, and promised them dwelling and livelihood in Burgdale.
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