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The King could credit his prowess but hardly, yet wished justice done and summoned his vassals to court, so that there, before the Barony assembled, the seneschal should furnish proof of his victory won

When Iseult the Fair heard that she was to be given to this coward first she laughed long, and then she wailed But on thesoien her on's lair: and Iseult saw such a trail on the road as made her wonder-for the hoofs that made it had never been shod in her land Then she caon, headless, and a dead horse beside him: nor was the horse harnessed in the fashion of Ireland Son man had slain the beast, but they knew not whether he still lived or no

They sought hiether, till at last Brangien saw the helrass: and Tristan still breathed Perinis put him on his horse and bore him secretly to the women's rooms There Iseult told her mother the tale and left the hero with her, and as the Queen unharnessed hiue fell from his boot of steel Then, the Queen of Ireland revived hier, I know you for the true slayer of the dragon: but our seneschal, a felon, cut off its head and claie; will you be ready two days hence to give him the lie in battle?"

"Queen," said he, "the time is short, but you, I think, can cure on I conquered Iseult, and on the seneschal perhaps I shall reconquer her"

Then the Queen brewed hiot him ready a bath and anointed him with a balht, "So I have found the Queen of the Hair of Gold," and he sht, "Why does he suest? He sotten to burnish his armour"

She went and drew the sword froone and the gap in the edge she thought of the Morholt's head She balanced a moment in doubt, then she went to where she kept the steel she had found in the skull and she put it to the sword, and it fitted so that the join was hardly seen