It was both a comfort and torment to see her smile at me. In the swirling blackness of my mind, I saw the eyes of the Gaiad-maiden, Kirðral, whom I slew. With a shudder I fell to my knees before finally collapsing to the earth. They were in the protection of the Gaiad now and would both survive, as their lives would not end with my death. I gazed with blurring eyes to see the Elf-maiden standing next to the Gaiad-lords with her child held tightly in her arms. My ignorance had caused it-the ignorance of blind-hatred. I had wrought my own doom with the slaying of Kirðras' sister. And I knew then that fate had finally caught up with me. There, sitting atop a quartet of fire-red steeds, were the same Gaiad-lords who had captured me only a few weeks before. I turned around, face askew, to see whom it was that shot me. I looked down to see the barbed head of an arrow piercing my breast. And I stood stiff, maddening pain ripping through me like hot fire. I had scarcely removed my wife's ring from his hand when I felt a jolt. I stood over the brigand's body panting madly with rage. With one mighty swing, my sword bit into his nape and severed his head from his body. I am a knight in King Harr's army! And it was my family that you slew!''Īnd so, the brigand, driven by fear at my revelation, rose from the ground with a stiletto in hand, and made a wild lunge at me.
It is the very such ring that I betrothed my wife. ''Bloodthirsty and reckless savages you are to have committed so fell a deed. I traded a fine silver cup for it, six days 'fore spring.'' We slew her and her three tots, little bastards they were! Then my companion cut this ring from her finger.
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