The Lad of the Gad
“And around him were his two sons, his warriors, his lads and his great gentles.
“Who now,” said his big son, the Prince of Cairns, “in the four brown fourths of the wheel of the world would dare to disgrace you before your people, your sons, your warriors, your lads and your great gentles?”
“Are you not silly?” said the king. “He could come, the one who should put a disgrace on me. And if he did, you would not pluck the worst hair in his beard.”
They saw then the shadow of a shower coming from ...the west and going to the east, and a warrior in a wet cloak and on a black horse was in it.
As a hero on the mountain, As a star over sparklings, As a great sea over little pools, So would seem he beside other men In figure, in face, in form and in riding.
He reached over his fist and he struck the king between the mouth and the nose, and he drove out three teeth, and caught them and put them in his pouch, and he went away.
“Did I not tell you,” said the king, “that one might come who should put a disgrace on me, and that you would not pluck the worst hair of his beard?”MoreLess
“Who now,” said his big son, the Prince of Cairns, “in the four brown fourths of the wheel of the world would dare to disgrace you before your people, your sons, your warriors, your lads and your great gentles?”
“Are you not silly?” said the king. “He could come, the one who should put a disgrace on me. And if he did, you would not pluck the worst hair in his beard.”
They saw then the shadow of a shower coming from ...the west and going to the east, and a warrior in a wet cloak and on a black horse was in it.
As a hero on the mountain, As a star over sparklings, As a great sea over little pools, So would seem he beside other men In figure, in face, in form and in riding.
He reached over his fist and he struck the king between the mouth and the nose, and he drove out three teeth, and caught them and put them in his pouch, and he went away.
“Did I not tell you,” said the king, “that one might come who should put a disgrace on me, and that you would not pluck the worst hair of his beard?”MoreLess
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