"We thought you had known of the bond betwixt us, and the work we have to do together.
You must tell him, brother, from the first." So the elder began: "Our father is king of this country.

Before we were born, three giant brothers had appeared in the land.

No one knew exactly when, and no one had the least idea whence they came.

They took possession of a ruined castle that had stood unchanged and unoccupied within the memory of any of the country people.

The vaults of this castle had remained uninjured by time, and these, I presume, they made use of at first.